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Atlantic is publishing a second novel by Aravind Adiga, scheduling it for release within two months of the paperback of his Booker-winning début The White Tiger.
The "novel in stories" Between the Assassinations centres around the inhabitants of the fictional "everytown" Kittur in the years between the assassinations of Indira Gandhi in 1984 and her son Rajiv in 1991. It will be released as a hardback on 1st July, priced £14.99.
Ravi Mirchandani, editor in chief at Atlantic, said it was "an ideal follow-up" to Adiga’s début. He said: "The White Tiger was very much dominated by one character, whereas here you have a multiplicity of voices. What excites me as his editor and publisher is that you see another side to his talent. You get a real sense of a broader talent from reading the two novels."
Adiga is coming to the UK for the paperback release of The White Tiger in May, visiting Bath, Bristol, Oxford, Dublin and London.
"We are in a very unusual position of having a début Booker-winner being followed up so soon with a second, strong, book—anything we do for The White Tiger is going to benefit this book as well," added Mirchandani.