With his Booker Prize-winning debut, The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga joined a fresh crop of Indian writers who portray their complex, changing country as they see it. With a successful follow up, Between the Assassinations, under his belt, Adiga is poised to publish a third novel. Last Man in the Tower (Grove Atlantic) is set in Mumbai, and explores the conflict between a high-powered real estate developer and one man who won’t sell out.
Adiga’s Indian publisher, HarperCollins India, calls the book “a sweeping novel about contemporary India, more particularly Mumbai. Adiga’s characters are unforgettable, his prose riveting.” Fans can look for the novel sometime in 2011.
