The Last Man in the Tower
by Aravind Adiga
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Pub Date Sep 20 2011 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012
Knopf Doubleday | Alfred A. Knopf
Description
Aravind Adiga's first novel since his Man Booker Prize-winning best seller The White Tiger ("Amazing . . . One of the most powerful books I've read in decades" -Deirdre Donahue, USA Today): a stunning, darkly comic story of greed and murder that lays bare the teeming metropolis of Mumbai.
Real estate developer Dharmen Shah's offer to buy out the residents of Vishram Society-a formerly respectable, now crumbling apartment complex that abuts the infamous Dharavi slums-is more than generous. But one man stands in the way of Shah's luxury high- rise: Masterji, a retired schoolteacher who will not leave his home in Vishram's Tower A. Shah is a dangerous man to refuse, but as the demolition deadline looms, Masterji's neighbors-friends who have become enemies, acquaintances turned co- conspirators-may stop at nothing to score their payday.
An electrifying, suspense-filled story of money and power, luxury and deprivation, peopled by brilliantly drawn, unforgettable characters, Last Man in Tower exposes the hearts and minds of the everymen and women of a great, booming city-ordinary people pushed to their limits in a place that knows none.
Real estate developer Dharmen Shah's offer to buy out the residents of Vishram Society-a formerly respectable, now crumbling apartment complex that abuts the infamous Dharavi slums-is more than generous. But one man stands in the way of Shah's luxury high- rise: Masterji, a retired schoolteacher who will not leave his home in Vishram's Tower A. Shah is a dangerous man to refuse, but as the demolition deadline looms, Masterji's neighbors-friends who have become enemies, acquaintances turned co- conspirators-may stop at nothing to score their payday.
An electrifying, suspense-filled story of money and power, luxury and deprivation, peopled by brilliantly drawn, unforgettable characters, Last Man in Tower exposes the hearts and minds of the everymen and women of a great, booming city-ordinary people pushed to their limits in a place that knows none.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780307594099 |
| PRICE | 26.95 |
| PAGES | 368 |
