Summary
Vikas Swarup: Six suspects
Seven years ago, Vicky Rai, the profligate son of the Home Minister of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, killed barmaid Ruby Gill in cold blood in a fashionable restaurant in New Delhi, just because she refused to serve him a drink. The case dragged through the courts for years, despite the abundance of witnesses who saw what happened... until Vicky Rai was finally, to the public's outrage, acquitted.
And immediately afterwards he was killed, by a bullet, at a great celebration of his freedom. The police quickly surrounded the villa with the guests, and found six of them who had weapons with them: a corrupt bureaucrat who claims to have become Mahatma Gandhi, an American tourist in love with an Indian actress, a native of the Andaman Islands who is searching for an alienated sacred stone, a Bollywood sex-bomb hiding a dark secret, a cellphone thief full of big dreams, and an ambitious politician ready to strike.
Six suspects Vikas Swarupa brings the stories of each of them in a variety of styles, environments, destinies and situations - a mosaic triumph that confirms the author of The Street Millionaire as one of the best storytellers of our time. The novel was translated by Vladimir Cvetković Sever.
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