SYDNEY -- It is fitting that Aravind Adiga, one of India's most acute modern chroniclers, should find himself locked down in Sydney, the setting of "Amnesty," his most recently published novel, and the first that takes place outside his native land.
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Booker Prize-winning author Aravind Adiga's latest novel, "Amnesty," is a brilliant evocation of the effects of migration. (Courtesy of Fernando Morales/The Globe and Mail)
SYDNEY -- It is fitting that Aravind Adiga, one of India's most acute modern chroniclers, should find himself locked down in Sydney, the setting of "Amnesty," his most recently published novel, and the first that takes place outside his native land.