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\"\"In his latest novel, following Selection Day<\/em><\/a> (2017), Booker Prize-winner Aravind Adiga confronts a universal conundrum: at what price are we willing to do the right thing?<\/p>\n

Over not quite 11 working hours, Dhananjaya Rajaratnam \u2013 who\u2019s been living in Sydney for the past four years as Danny, a diligent housecleaner whose backpack vacuum cleaner makes him look more like an astronaut \u2013 has to decide if he\u2019s going to help solve a murder. The probable cost is freedom: being an \u201cinvisible\u201d Australian means he\u2019s \u201cfree forever in Sydney,\u201d even as he\u2019s \u201ctrapped forever in Sydney.\u201d Returning to his native Sri Lanka is not an option.<\/p>\n

Just as he\u2019s finishing a morning job, Danny learns that H5 \u2013 the owner of House Number Five, according to his truncated client nomenclature \u2013 is dead and quickly deduces that H6 is involved. As the hours pass, Danny just wants to deliver a cactus to his Vietnamese girlfriend (with a dose of truth), all the while avoiding the police, deportation, and a tenacious murderer. Adiga, who\u2019s become a part-time Australian, again scrutinizes the human condition through a haves-vs.-have-not filter with sly wit and narrative ingenuity.<\/p>\n

High-demand backstory<\/strong>: Bestselling Adiga\u2019s smart, funny, and timely tale with a crime spin of an undocumented immigrant will catalyze readers.<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>: “Fiction,” Booklist<\/em>, December 1, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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