A group of stories all set in Kittur, an Indian town in the state of Karnataka. Many of the protagonists find themselves at the bottom of the social ladder, but not all. What binds them together is the factors from which they cannot escape: their caste, their social contacts or lack of them. This book will have you understand how poverty corruption and fear smell and taste. It will have you understand how the role into which you are born is that which will define you throughout your life, however much you strive against it. An illuminating and involving book, and ultimately a depressing one, which I was glad to finish. ( )

Started reading it last fall, stopped on page 109. Finally picked it back up last week and finished it. I'm so glad to be done with it. The White Tiger was so much better. ( )

I have to let this sink in before I decide if I like this one better than The White Tiger, but it was really good! ( )

'The White Tiger' was a great book; 'Between the Assassinations' is an even more profound work, and one that I would call a masterpiece. It is a collection of tales set in the fictitious Indian town of Kittur (there is a real Kittur, but the real town is not on the coast), with the occasional overlap of characters a la 'Winesburg, Ohio.' Every aspect of life in the town is examined with honest bravery by Aravind Adiga; the corruption and misery of a life of poverty comes through clearly, though you find yourself sympathising with even the worst of the rogues in this book. ( )

In diesen Geschichten aus einer Stadt, so der Untertitel dieses Episoden-Romans, führt der Autor den Leser in zwanzig abgeschlossenen, kurzen Erzählungen durch den Alltag einer fiktiven 200.000 – Einwohner-Stadt in der indischen Provinz. Mit leichter Hand und psychologischer Finesse beschreibt Aravind Adiga den sozialen Alltag im modernen Indien. Es sind Geschichten über Kasten & Religionen, über Sprachen & Sprachlosigkeit, über Erfolg und Scheitern – ein beeindruckenes Buch. ( )