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I am not in the least surprised that this book won the Booker Prize in 2008 and was a nominee for several other awards. It is a remarkable debut novel and I am thrilled that the author has gone on to write several more books.
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A compelling tale of servant turned entrepreneur in a modern India, via murder. The insidiousness of the "rooster coop" of servitude and its warping of human relationships up and down the social structure is a strong thematic thread. The main character follows the "civilizing" path of economic development in a microcosm of human history. The murder jars and exposes all of the flaws of the caste system, in which the only way out is murder. Enslavement has rarely been overcome without bloodshed an
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What to say about this Man Booker prizewinner? Firstly, I don't usually like books written in letter format, but this is a series of letters without replies and without those annoying italics that publishers usually use. Second, it is a fast and entertaining social commentary encompassing the Indian caste system, the clutches of extended family, and the co-dependency of masters and servants. Corruption is everywhere, (even the young nephew at the end is extracting his price)as the letter writer
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Interesting look at modern day India
What an interesting story line this debut book by Adiga has. It was very engaging and came at the radical disparity of life in India (and so many other countries like it) in an ingenious way. This author has a very strong character voice in the main character of the novel. Bought my copy on the streets of Old Delhi a few months back...
Reading the reviews for this book was more entertaining & educational than the book itself. I got tired of hearing several phrases repeated by the narrator/driver...I could care less how often he wanted to "dip his beak" and I didn't like the overuse of the term, "sister-f'r" either. The book seemed to take much longer than necessary...especially listening to it on audio.
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