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**Longlisted for the Bangalore Literary Festival Book Prize 2018**
**Shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature**
"Manu Joseph's new novel is a daring, page-turning thriller, filled with anger and wit and some of the loveliest sentences you will read this year." - Zoë Heller
On the day that Hindu nationalists and their controversial leader have won a spectacular election victory, a large apartment building collapses in Mumbai. The rescue operation finds only one survivor, a man trapped under a beam, mumbling in delirium. But what he is saying is that two people are on their way to carry out a terror attack. Not only must they get him out, the police must find out what he knows, and act quickly.
A young woman, Akhila Iyer, a medical student but also a notorious prankster, has rushed to the scene. She is small and light enough to crawl along to the tunnel to the dying man to administer painkillers as they try to dig him out of the rubble. Akhila is the only link between him and the police, hearing what he is whispering.
Elsewhere, a young intelligence agent, Mukundan, is assigned to shadow the two terror suspects, one of whom is a teenager and the sweetheart of her street, the enigmatic Laila. And so the chase is on ...
Manu Joseph's new novel poses some very big questions, but at its heart are the ordinary people, the watchers and the followers, and those who are trapped when buildings fall.
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'Caustic... comic and determinedly controversial.' Guardian
' A page-turning thriller that poses searching questions about the workings of power and its effects on the ordinary people... stylish and deceptively witty political satire.' Irish Times
'A novel of much importance, telling the bare truth teasingly.' Times of India
' It is no surprise that Joseph's latest, Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous, continues on the same socially aware path, tackling racism, poverty, police malpractice and chauvinism, to mention but a few of its themes... Joseph succeeds in delivering what is undoubtedly most expected from him following Serious Men: political and social commentary that does not shy away from uncomfortable truths.' --Disclaimer Mag
About the Author
Manu Joseph is the author of two previous widely acclaimed and bestselling novels, Serious Men (winner of the Hindu Literary Prize and the PEN/Open Book Award) and The Illicit Happiness of Other People (shortlisted for the Encore Award and the Hindu Literary Prize). A former columnist for the The International New York Times, he lives in Delhi and writes for The Mint Lounge.
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- PublisherMyriad Editions
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1912408104
- ISBN 13 9781912408108
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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