![]() ![]() While some areas of the city might take a full day to explore, others take only part of a day, thus some chapters cover a full day and others only a morning or an afternoon. He explains that in order to properly "do" Kittur you need seven days and the book is divided into seven sections. Sandwiched between the two, the "life as normal" scenes depicted by Adiga are a history you don't normally read in text books.Īdiga frames the book as a tourist guide to the region. While neither event has any direct bearing on the course of action in this book, they were important events in the history of India. The titular assassinations refer to the 1984 death of Indira Gandhi and the killing of her son Rajiv seven years later in 1991. In Between the Assassinations, Aravind Adiga tries his hand at the genre setting his stories in the city of Kittur on the southwest coast of India. ![]() Although from different worlds and stylistically miles apart, both men brought their chosen cities to life in ways that left indelible impressions upon the reader. The most famous of these collections are Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and James Joyce's Dubliners. Through a series of vignettes featuring the lives of a variety of individuals in a community the author attempts to give readers an impression of life in the locale. There's a literary tradition of creating a series of stories tied together by location. ![]()
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