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Amnesty (अमेन्स्टी)
श्रीलंकेचा मूळ रहिवासी असलेला धनंजय ऊर्फ डॅनी सिडनीत बेकायदेशीर स्थलांतर करतो. साफसफाईची कामं करून किराणा मालाच्या स्टोअर रूममध्ये लपून राहतो. एके दिवशी डॅनीला आपल्या एका मालकिणीचा - राधा थॉमसचा सुरा भोसकून खून झाल्याचं कळतं. त्याला हेही कळतं की, खून झाला, तेव्हा तिच्या अंगावर एक जॅकेट होतं. डॅनीच्या कल्पनेनुसार ते जॅकेट त्याच्या आणखी एका मालकाचं होतं. डॅनीला माहीत होतं की, त्या बाईचं त्या माणसाबरोबर प्रेमप्रकरण चाललेलं आहे. आता त्याच्यासमोर आकस्मिकपणे एक यक्षप्रश्न उभा आहे. खुनामागील ही हकिगत माहीत असणारा साक्षीदार म्हणून पुढे येऊन मायदेशी रवाना होण्याचा धोका पत्करावा की गप्प राहून अन्याय घडू द्यावा? डॅनीचा स्वतःच्याच सदसद्विवेकबुद्धीबरोबर झगडा सुरू होतो. एका देशांतरित माणसाच्या मनोवस्थेचा, आजच्या जगातील त्याच्या एका विशिष्ट अवघड आणि म्हणूनच निकडीच्या झालेल्या अवस्थेचा रहस्यपूर्णतेने तरी व्यामिश्रतेने घेतलेला वेध
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Selection Day
Booker-prize winner Aravind Adiga is back with a page-turner of a novel set in the world of cricket in Mumbai Manjunath Kumar is fourteen. He knows he is good at cricket - if not as good as his elder brother Radha. He knows that he fears and resents his domineering and cricket-obsessed father, admires his brilliantly talented sibling and is fascinated by the world of CSI and by curious and interesting scientific facts. But there are many things about himself and about the world that he doesn't know. Sometimes it seems as though everyone around him has a clear idea of who Manju should be, except Manju himself. When Manju begins to get to know Radha's great rival, a boy as privileged and confident as Manju is not, everything in Manju's world begins to change and he is faced with decisions that will challenge both his sense of self and of the world around him
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The White Tiger
Meet Balram Halwai, the `White Tiger` servent, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells his story. born in village in the dark heart of india, the son of a rickshaw puller, balram is taken out of school by his family and put ot work in a teashop. As he crushes coal and wipes tables he nurses a dream of escape - of breaking away from the banks of mother ganga, into whose murky depths have seeped remains of a hundred generations.