New York Times best-selling author and winner of the Man Booker Prize, Aravind Adiga is a rising star. A novel told through a collection of 12 short stories, Between the Assassinations tackles both the injustices and humorous ironies of Indian life. Adiga weaves together the overlapping lives of the residents of Kittur, a fictional town in India where people are struggling to deal with the changes brought about by the assassinations of Prime Minister Gandhi and her son Rajiv.