Man Booker Prize Winner Arvind Adiga To Publish His Next Book 'Amnesty'

Arvind Adiga- the winner of Man Booker Prize for 'The White Tiger', is back with yet another book. Amnesty, which is published by Pan Macmillan is a story of an undocumented immigrant who becomes the only witness to a crime. It is all set to release on February 20. 

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The story revolves around the protagonist- Danny or Dhananjaya Rajaratnam who is an undocumented immigrant in Sydney. He has been denied refugee status after he fled from his native country Sri Lanka. He is trying to create a new identity for himself. For the last three years, he has been working as a cleaner and lives in a grocery storeroom. He is very close to achieving the perfect 'Australian life' that he had always dreamt of. 

But then one morning, Danny learns a female client of his has been murdered. He later recognizes a jacket left at the murder scene. Danny believes that the jacket belongs to another client — a doctor with whom he knows the woman was having an affair with. Suddenly he is confronted with a choice: should he come forward with his knowledge about the crime and risk being deported, or say nothing and let justice go undone?

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Suspenseful, propulsive, and full of Aravind Adiga’s signature wit and magic, Amnesty is both a timeless moral struggle and a universal story with particular urgency today.

Notably, Arvind Adiga is an Indo-Australian writer and journalist. His other notable work includes Last Man In Tower, Selection Day and Between The Assassinations.  

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