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Out with his latest work, Booker-winning author Aravind Adiga THREE years after bagging the Booker, Aravind Adiga feels he has matured as a writer and hopes readers will judge his new novel Last Man in Tower primarily by its literary quality and not see it as a work of social criticism.
"Any novel should attempt to create a dramatic situation that features compelling characters. Like other novels, Last Man in Tower should be judged primarily by its qualities as a story and not as a work of social criticism. "I hope to tell a story that will entertain and challenge my readers. I am not making a statement about society or politics," Adiga said in an exclusive interview about his just-released work, which is a suspense-filled story of money and power, luxury and deprivation set in a Mumbai housing society. Asked whether the Adarsh Society would have been a better plot, he laughs, "Ha. The scandal of the Adarsh Society had not broken out at the time of writing this novel. I wouldn't have picked it in any case. "I wanted a
completely normal housing society and the building in the novel, Vishram,
is based on the real building in Vakola (Santa Cruz East), where I lived
where I was writing The White Tiger. I wanted a normal, solid,
middle-class Mumbai setting for the book."—
PTI
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"I
am older now than when I wrote The White Tiger. I was ill for a
part of 2010, so that has changed me too. I do hope I've matured as a
writer. At the same time, no novelist should mature too much or he might
produce boring works. One hopes to gain in power and amplitude while
retaining a fresh and unconventional quality to the writing," the
37-year-old writer says.