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Set in the small Karnataka town of Kittur, ...Assassinations attempts a portrait of the town and its inhabitants, across class, caste, religion and occupation. Among them are an illiterate Muslim boy who is dazzled by a handsome Islamic terrorist a Dalit bookseller arrested for selling a pirated copy of The Satanic Verses a journalist confronting the yawning gap between what happened during a communal riot and what his newspaper is willing to print and the widow of a farmer who turns in vain to the local Communist leader for help. 'What emerges,' according to the blurb, 'is the moral biography of an Indian town in the seven-year period between the assassinations of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi-a time of great transformations.' (Publisher's blurb)
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For Ramin Bahrani
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Large print.
Works about this Work
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Seven Days of Their Lives : Corruption Meets Despair
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 1-2 August 2009; (p. 26-27)
— Review of Between the Assassinations 2009 selected work novel -
Well Read
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 18 July 2009; (p. 26)
— Review of Between the Assassinations 2009 selected work novel ; The Book of Rapture 2009 single work novel -
Re-Riding the Tiger
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , July vol. 4 no. 6 2009; (p. 22)
— Review of Between the Assassinations 2009 selected work novel -
Caste a Familiar Shadow
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4-5 July 2009; (p. 12-13)
— Review of Between the Assassinations 2009 selected work novel
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Caste a Familiar Shadow
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4-5 July 2009; (p. 12-13)
— Review of Between the Assassinations 2009 selected work novel -
Re-Riding the Tiger
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , July vol. 4 no. 6 2009; (p. 22)
— Review of Between the Assassinations 2009 selected work novel -
Well Read
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 18 July 2009; (p. 26)
— Review of Between the Assassinations 2009 selected work novel ; The Book of Rapture 2009 single work novel -
Seven Days of Their Lives : Corruption Meets Despair
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 1-2 August 2009; (p. 26-27)
— Review of Between the Assassinations 2009 selected work novel
Awards
- 2009 shortlisted John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
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cIndia,cSouth Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
- 1985-1990