Amnesty

Dhananjaya “Danny” Rajaratnam is an undocumented immigrant in Sydney, Australia. He was denied refugee status after he fled from his native Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he’s been trying to create a new identity for himself. And now, with his girlfriend, his hidden accent and highlights in his hair, he is as close as he has ever come to living a normal Australian life. But then one morning, Danny learns a female client of his has been murdered. Then Danny recognises a jacket left at the murder scene, belonging to another of his clients – a doctor with whom he knows the woman was having an affair. Suddenly he is confronted with a choice: Come forward with his knowledge about the crime and risk being deported, or say nothing, and let justice go undone. Insightful, and full of Aravind Adiga’s signature wit and magic, Amnesty is both a timeless moral struggle and a universal story with particular urgency today.