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DNF at 53%. I decided to give up on this one as I was struggling to get through it. I concluded my TBR list was too long to spend time ploughing through a book I wasn’t enjoying. It’s a shame because I was very taken with the concept, which you can read in the blurb at the top of the page. To begin with I was looking forward to reading what the author made of the intriguing scenario he had created.The novel itself, or the first half of it at least, is set across a single day of Danny’s life, the...
*** Shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Prize 2021 ***”Danny had come to Australia by plane and then applied for refugee status and been told to fuck off.”The book opens with a beautiful description of the Sri Lankan coastline. Where the fish can sing. Absolutely true. A place where ”at midnight, the water’s skin breaks, and the kadal kanni, mermaids, emerge out of the lagoon, dripping with moonlight. From the time he was about four or five years old, Danny had wanted to talk to a mermaid.”Fast f...
Danny is an illegal alien from Sri Lanka! He entered Australia legally, but has let his visa expire. Although he applied for asylum, he was denied because he wasn’t smuggled in on a boat which would highlight his level of desperation and fear. So this Tamal Christian currently earns his living as a ‘cleaner’, and seeks invisibility so he won’t be deported.So what is he to do when he is a witness to a murder—and the murderer knows it? The cat-and-mouse game between Danny and the murderer takes up...
Danny (Dhananjaya Rajaratnam) has been living as an illegal immigrant in Sydney for four years after arriving from Sri Lanka on an educational visa to study at what turned out to be a bogus college. He's managed to make himself nearly invisible on the streets of Sydney, dying the tips of his hair golden, smoothing out his Tamil accent and peppering his English with Aussie expressions. He has a girlfriend, a handful of friends who are also illegal immigrants and some regular work as a cash in han...
Amnesty takes a very original take on the life of an "illegal". The narrative follows Danny, a young Sri Lankan who deliberately overstayed his visa and now resides in Sydney as invisibly as he can. He works as a cash in hand cleaner. One of his clients is murdered and he thinks he knows who is the murderer. His quandary is whether to talk to the police, a big no no for a non-person, or to live with his conscious. His observations on Australians and racism, religion and the law is scarily accura...
2021 Miles Franklin Short List4.5 starsA really interesting book, set in Sydney, and I think Adiga has us pegged. I found there were some similarities to the author's Booker winner, The White Tiger. This novel also features a man who's an under-dog, faced with a moral question, and we follow him right through the novel to find out what his decision will be. The novel takes place in a time-stamped single day, with added flashbacks. There is a bit of repetition in the text which adds a little some...
For four years young Sri Lankan man Danny Rajaratnam has lived an invisible life in Sydney as an illegal immigrant. He's suppressed his Tamil accent to achieve something that sounds - while not exactly Australian - quite neutral, he's paid to have golden highlights in his hair, he takes care to heed the particular instructions of his housecleaning clients to avoid confrontation and he always travels with a validated ticket on public transport. Easiest thing in the world, becoming invisible to wh...
Tedious Not-so-thrilling ThrillerReview of the Scribner hardcover edition (2020)I felt betrayed by the shill synopsis and blurbs which promised an intriguing cat and mouse game between an undocumented immigrant to Australia and their suspected culprit in the murder of a woman that they both knew. The actual result was quite tedious and a struggle to continue reading.We are told many times that the immigrant is wearing a vacuum cleaner on his back as if it was an astronaut's oxygen pack while con...
