A riveting, suspenseful, and exuberant novel from the bestselling, Man Booker Prizeâ€“winning author of The White Tiger and Selection Day about a young illegal immigrant who

Amnesty: A Novel

A riveting, suspenseful, and exuberant novel from the bestselling, Man Booker Prizeâ€“winning author of The White Tiger and Selection Day about a young illegal immigrant who must decide whether to report crucial information about a murderâ€”and thereby risk deportation.

Dannyâ€”formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnamâ€”is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia, denied refugee status after he fled from Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years heâ€™s been trying to create a new identity for himself. And now, with his beloved vegan girlfriend, Sonja, with his hidden accent and highlights in his hair, he is as close as he has ever come to living a normal life.

But then one morning, Danny learns a female client of his has been murdered. The deed was done with a knife, at a creek heâ€™d been to with her before; and a jacket was left at the scene, which he believes belongs to another of his clientsâ€”a doctor with whom Danny knows the woman was having an affair. Suddenly Danny is confronted with a choice: Come forward with his knowledge about the crime and risk being deported? Or say nothing, and let justice go undone? Over the course of this day, evaluating the weight of his past, his dreams for the future, and the unpredictable, often absurd reality of living invisibly and undocumented, he must wrestle with his conscience and decide if a person without rights still has responsibilities.

Propulsive, insightful, and full of Aravind Adigaâ€™s signature wit and magic, Amnesty is both a timeless moral struggle and a universal story with particular urgency today.
Country USA
Brand SCRIBNER
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2020-02-18
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781982127244

Country	USA
Brand	SCRIBNER
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2020-02-18
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781982127244

Amnesty: A Novel

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