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A sweeping saga of modern India, The Story of My Assassins is gripping from its first sentence: The morning I learnt I d been shot I was sitting in my office on the second floor looking out the big glass window...
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Part thriller and part erotic romance, full of dark humour and taut suspense, The Story of My Assassins is a piercing literary novel that takes us from the lavish, hedonistic palaces of India s elite, to its seediest slums. It is a novel of corruption, passion, power and ambition; of extreme poverty and obscene wealth.
Based on actual events, it tells the story of a journalist who learns that the police have captured five hitmen on their way to kill him. Landing like a bombshell on his comfortable life, just as he s started a steamy affair with a brilliant woman, the news prompts him to launch an urgent investigation into the lives of his would-be murderers a ragtag group of street thugs and village waifs and their mastermind. Who wanted him dead, and why?
Part thriller and part erotic romance, full of dark humour and taut suspense, The Story of My Assassins is a piercing literary novel that takes us from the lavish, hedonistic palaces of India s elite, to its seediest slums. It is a novel of corruption, passion, power and ambition; of extreme poverty and obscene wealth.
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Tejpal s masterful U.S. debut is an epic tale of modern-day India and its labyrinthine social and political machinations. --Publisher's Weekly
Tarun Tejpal is clever and inventive. In the profoundest way he writes for India. --V.S. Naipaul
Deeply humane, raucously funny, dizzy with social and psychological insight! A masterful account of 21st-century ambition, inequality, and power from one of India s most fearless writers. --Katherine Boo, Pulitzer Prize winner
A Dickensian tale of brutality and mayhem in the underbelly of contemporary India...touches on greatness. --Financial Times
Tarun Tejpal's highest ambitions are to take on the big ideas of the age...happily he succeeds because the ideas are embedded in the story, not arbitarily pinned onto the characters. --Literary Review
Brilliantly evoked... He spares us nothing in his depiction of the lust, cruelty and despair which are to be found towards the bottom of the heap in India. ----The Independent
Tarun Tejpal's highest ambitions are to take on the big ideas of the age...happily he succeeds because the ideas are embedded in the story, not arbitarily pinned onto the characters. --Literary Review
About the Author:
Tarun Tejpal is clever and inventive. In the profoundest way he writes for India. --V.S. Naipaul
Deeply humane, raucously funny, dizzy with social and psychological insight! A masterful account of 21st-century ambition, inequality, and power from one of India s most fearless writers. --Katherine Boo, Pulitzer Prize winner
A Dickensian tale of brutality and mayhem in the underbelly of contemporary India...touches on greatness. --Financial Times
Tarun Tejpal's highest ambitions are to take on the big ideas of the age...happily he succeeds because the ideas are embedded in the story, not arbitarily pinned onto the characters. --Literary Review
Brilliantly evoked... He spares us nothing in his depiction of the lust, cruelty and despair which are to be found towards the bottom of the heap in India. ----The Independent
Tarun Tejpal's highest ambitions are to take on the big ideas of the age...happily he succeeds because the ideas are embedded in the story, not arbitarily pinned onto the characters. --Literary Review
Tarun J. Tejpal is a journalist, publisher, novelist and founder of Tehelka, one of India s leading news magazines that is renowned for its aggressive public interest journalism. He has been named one of India s most influential people by The Guardian, Businessweek and Asiaweek.
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- PublisherMelville House Publishing
- ISBN 10 1612191630
- ISBN 13 9781612191638
- BindingHardcover
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