三民網路書店「白老虎」「暗殺效應」作者Aravind Adiga最新作品
一個關於『都市更新』的現代寓言！
孟買市郊、一個貧民窟旁的老舊社區，即將成為新興頂級豪宅「Shanghai」的預定地，拼上老命也要建出這個生涯代表作的地產大亨Mr. Shan，開出美金六位數的天價收購金額。社區居民為自己的好運欣慰，能夠帶著這筆巨款邁向新生活，唯獨一個死硬的釘子戶，一向被社區居民的敬重退休教師Masterji獨排眾議，不願接受收購。
究竟是麼原因，他為何不願搬遷，阻擋大家財路?地產大亨跟社區居民就這樣扮起諜對諜的戲碼...窺探威脅，結果究竟誰能勝出？面對都市生活日新月異與舊日感情的拉扯，這一次，這椿戲碼，能不能有更好的結局？
21st Century Mumbai is a city of new money and soaring real estate, and property kingpin Dharmen Shah has grand plans for its future. His offer to buy and tear down a weathered tower block, making way for luxury apartments, will make each of its residents rich - if all agree to sell. But not everyone wants to leave; many of the residents have lived there for a lifetime, many of them are no longer young. As tensions rise among the once civil neighbours, one by one those who oppose the offer give way to the majority, until only one man stands in Shah's way: Masterji, a retired schoolteacher, once the most respected man in the building. Shah is a dangerous man to refuse, but as the demolition deadline looms, Masterji's neighbours - friends who have become enemies, acquaintances turned co-conspirators - may stop at nothing to score their payday...
作者簡介
Aravind Adiga was born in Madras in 1974. He studied at Columbia and Oxford universities. A former India correspondent Time magazine, his articles have also appeared in publications like the Financial Times, the Independent, and the Sunday Times.
