Aravind Adiga
Free Press, New York, 2008, English
Fiction
8.4 x 5.6 inches, paperback, 304 pages
ISBN: 9781416562603
Suggested Retail Price: $15.00
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George Yabu

The themes in this book and those in Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment are closely associated through a harrowing, premeditated crime. The two novels were written about a century and a half apart; yet interestingly, the personal moral justifications of their characters’ actions just to get ahead within the rigid societal structure of 19th-century Russia and present-day India run eerily parallel.

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