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Book SynopsisA novel packed with telling details and anecdotes about life in contemporary India, set in the rural villages of Bihar and the metropolises of Bombay and Delhi.
Trade Review“
Nobody Does the Right Thing imaginatively portrays the forces shaping contemporary India, and it is a remarkable reader of mass culture and popular narrative forms, of the worlds of Hindi cinema, pulp fiction, sensational journalism, and globalized media.”—
Siddhartha Deb, author of
An Outline of the Republic and
The Point of Return“
Nobody Does the Right Thing is a deeply compassionate novel about art, life, and everything that lies in between.”—
Laila Lalami, author of
Secret Son“
Nobody Does the Right Thing is a quietly but deeply impressive novel. It not only takes us into the living, ambivalent textures of an India that is relatively little written about: the India of villages, highways, second-class train compartments, and old but second-rate metropolises. It also transforms itself, in the process, into an exemplar of
how that variegated terrain might be addressed.”—
Amit Chaudhuri, author of
The Immortals“To know a country so you have its dirt beneath your fingernails is a difficult thing. Read
Nobody Does the Right Thing and you will have India beneath your fingernails.”—
Akhil Sharma, author of
An Obedient FatherTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
I. The Car with the Red Light 1
II. Ulan Bator at Night 33
III. The Lady with the Dog 61
IV. Kiss of the Spider Woman 99
V. News of a Kidnapping 123
VI. Nobody Does the Right Thing 153
VII. The Glass Menagerie 175
