Amnesty

<p><b>From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of <i>The White Tiger, </i>Aravind Adiga, comes the story of an undocumented immigrant who becomes the only witness to a crime and must face an impossible moral dilemma.</b><br><br><b>''Alive with empathy, indignation and the sharp satiric reportage at which Aravind Adiga excels, this novel grippingly extends his concern for deprivation and injustice.'' - <i>Sunday Times</i> ''Books of the Year''</b><br><br><b>Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award</b><br><br>Danny – 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.<br><br>One 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 . . .<br><br><b>Suspenseful, propulsive, and full of Aravind Adiga’s signature wit and magic, <i>Amnesty </i>is both a timeless moral struggle and a universal story with particular urgency today.</b><br><br><b>''[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.'' - <i>New York Times</i></b></p>