Last Man In Tower

Author: Aravind Adiga

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  • : $19.99 AUD
  • : 9781848875180
  • : Atlantic Books
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  • : August 2012
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : September 2012
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Description

21st Century Mumbai is a city of new money and soaring real estate, and property kingpin Dharmen Shah has grand plans for its future. His offer to buy and tear down a weathered tower block, making way for luxury apartments, will make each of its residents rich - if all agree to sell. But not everyone wants to leave; many of the residents have lived there for a lifetime, many of them are no longer young. As tensions rise among the once civil neighbours, one by one those who oppose the offer give way to the majority, until only one man stands in Shah's way: Masterji, a retired schoolteacher, once the most respected man in the building. Shah is a dangerous man to refuse, but as the demolition deadline looms, Masterji's neighbours - friends who have become enemies, acquaintances turned co-conspirators - may stop at nothing to score their payday...

Reviews

Praise for "Last Man in Tower"
"Formally daring, panoramic in sweep, and fearless in its forays into disparate characters, not the least being Bombay, city of sensual amplitude. . . . Equally stunning is the melancholy that underlies the narrative bustle, and the many moments of sweetness. Adiga's voice, an arresting blend of angry advocacy and mature wisdom, is fully formed."
"--National Post"

"You simply do not realize how anemic most contemporary fiction is until you read Adiga's muscular prose. His plots don't unwind, they surge. . . . Just brilliant."
""--"USA Today"

Author description

Aravind Adiga was born in Madras in 1974. He studied at Columbia and Oxford universities. A former India correspondent for Time magazine, his articles have also appeared in publications including the Financial Times, Independent and the Sunday Times. His first novel, The White Tiger, won the Man Booker Prize in 2008 and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, as was his short-story collection Between the Assassinations (2009).