From the author of the New York Times bestseller Slumdog Millionaire comes a richly textured social thriller.
Seven years ago, Vivek Vicky” Rai, the playboy son of the home minister of Uttar Pradesh, murdered bartender Ruby Gill at a trendy restaurant in New Delhi, simply because she refused to serve him a drink. Now Vicky Rai has been killed at the party he was throwing to celebrate his acquittal. The police arrest six guests with guns in their possession: a corrupt bureaucrat who claims to have become Mahatma Gandhi; an American tourist infatuated with an Indian actress; a Stone Age tribesman on a quest; a Bollywood sex symbol with a guilty secret; a mobile-phone thief who dreams big; and an ambitious politician prepared to stoop low.
Swarup unravels the lives and motives of the six suspects,offering both a riveting page-turner and an insightful look into the heart of contemporary India.
斯瓦鲁普,出生于印度律师世家。从小爱好写作,大学生修当代历史、心理学、哲学。供职于印度外交部、曾被派驻到土耳其、美国、埃塞俄比亚和英国。现就任印度驻比勒陀利亚(南非首都)大使馆的副大使。
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