{"product_id":"amnesty","title":"Aravind Adiga: Amnesty [2021] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Alive with empathy, indignation and the sharp satiric reportage at which Aravind Adiga excels, this novel grippingly extends his concern for deprivation and injustice.' - \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e 'Books of the Year'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of the Oscar-nominated film \u003ci\u003eThe White Tiger, \u003c\/i\u003eAravind Adiga, comes the story of an undocumented immigrant who becomes the only witness to a crime and must face an impossible moral dilemma.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDanny - formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam - is an undocumented Sri Lankan immigrant. Denied refugee status, working as a cleaner and living out of a grocery storeroom in Sydney, for four years he has been trying to create a new identity for himself, finally coming as close as he ever has to living a normal life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne morning, Danny learns that his client Radha Thomas has been murdered. A jacket was left at the scene, which he believes belongs to another client, a doctor with whom Radha was having an affair. Suddenly Danny is confronted with a choice: Come forward as a witness and risk being deported? Or say nothing, and let justice go undone? Over the course of a single ordinary, yet extraordinary day, he must wrestle with his conscience and decide if a person without rights nevertheless has responsibilities . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuspenseful, propulsive, and full of Aravind Adiga's signature wit and magic, \u003ci\u003eAmnesty \u003c\/i\u003eis both a timeless moral struggle and a universal story with particular urgency today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'[Adiga] is a startlingly fine observer . . . You come to this novel for its author's authority, wit and feeling on the subject of immigrants' lives.' - \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Adiga, Aravind","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44611723624738,"sku":"9781509879052","price":13.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/adiga-aravind-aravind-adiga-amnesty-2021-paperback-9781509879052-60581930008915.jpg?v=1735617718","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/amnesty","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}