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Algonquin Books Secret Son
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Duke University Press Nobody Does the Right Thing
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
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