{"product_id":"amnesty","title":"Amnesty","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe White Tiger, \u003c\/i\u003eAravind Adiga, comes the story of an undocumented immigrant who becomes the only witness to a crime and must face an impossible moral dilemma.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Alive with empathy, indignation and the sharp satiric reportage at which Aravind Adiga excels, this novel grippingly extends his concern for deprivation and injustice.'' - \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e ''Books of the Year''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDanny – 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne 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 . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSuspenseful, propulsive, and full of Aravind Adiga’s signature wit and magic, \u003ci\u003eAmnesty \u003c\/i\u003eis both a timeless moral struggle and a universal story with particular urgency today.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''[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.'' - \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57384063041918,"sku":"NW9781509879052","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781509879052.jpg?v=1778636560","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/amnesty","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}