Lit in Translation

Amnesty

Amnesty

Aravind Adiga (born 1974)

English editions

Written in English

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Dhananjaya Rajaratnam, known as Danny, arrived in Sydney as a student, lost his visa and was turned down for asylum, yet stayed on rather than face danger at home in Sri Lanka. Since then he has worked off the books as a cleaner, slept in the storeroom of a grocer and reinvented himself so well that not even his girlfriend Sonja suspects he is undocumented. One morning he hears that Radha Thomas, a woman whose home he cleans, has been murdered near a creek. A jacket found with her body resembles one belonging to her lover, a doctor Danny also works for. Across one day he must choose: help the police and probably be deported, or stay quiet and let a killer go free.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
352 pages in the original
Genres
Migration, Crime (assigned by AI)
Set in
Australia
First published
2020
Author's age
46 when first published
ISBN

9781509879038 (Picador, United Kingdom)

9781982127244 (Scribner, United States)

9781509879052 (Picador, United Kingdom)

9781982127305 (Scribner, United States)