Last Man in Tower

Resumen del libro

The magnificent new novel from the million-selling Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger: one of the most eagerly anticipated literary novels of 2011, 'a kaleidoscopic portrait of a changing Mumbai' Guardian Best Books of 2011 Ask any Bombaywallah about Vishram Society Tower A of the Vishram Co-operative Housing Society and you will be told that it is unimpeachably pucca. Despite its location close to the airport, under the flight path of 747s and bordered by slums, it has been pucca for some fifty years. But Bombay has changed in half a century not least its name and the world in which Tower A was first built is giving way to a new city; a Mumbai of development and new money; of wealthy Indians returning with fortunes made abroad.

Biografía del autor

Aravind Adiga is the author of The White Tiger, longlisted for the Booker Prize. He worked in India as a journalist for TIME magazine from 2003 to 2005; his work has also appeared in British newspapers like the Financial Times and the Independent. The White Tiger is his first novel. He lives in Mumbai.<br>