This won The Booker in 2008 and is a rather amazing satire of India. The protagonist/narrator is a very bad man really and yet there is something admirable about his spunk in dealing with the corruption in India. It's really hard to know how to react but even though he is a murderer and caused the murder of his family, the second last sentence of the book almost redeem him:
"I'll say it was all worthwhile to know, just for a day, just for an hour, just for a minute, what it means not to be a servant."
It's a choice of my retired teachers' book club so it will be interesting to see what others have to say.
