--- product_id: 138674797 title: "Amnesty: A Novel" price: "£16.70" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/138674797-amnesty-a-novel store_origin: GB region: Great Britain --- # Amnesty: A Novel **Price:** £16.70 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Amnesty: A Novel - **How much does it cost?** £16.70 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/138674797-amnesty-a-novel) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description desertcart.com: Amnesty: A Novel eBook : Adiga, Aravind: Kindle Store Review: Haunting and fascinating - Amnesty is an in-depth look at the world from an illegal immigrant’s perspective that leaves a ringing, lasting impression. For you if: You don’t mind books that ask a little extra from you because they are more literary / cerebral. FULL REVIEW: "Nothing is simple for a man like this one. Not even being helpless. Or harmless. Life is a battle, and though unevenly so, everyone is armed." Amnesty was a really unique book, at least for me, and so it also moved me in a unique way. Told over the course of one single day, it follows an illegal immigrant living in Sydney, Australia, named Danny. Danny has been in Sydney for four years. He originally travelled there on a student visa and then applied for asylum, but was denied. So he stayed illegally. Now he has a girlfriend he loves and a steady stream of clients whose houses he cleans, so life is pretty good. But then one of them is murdered, and Danny thinks another one of his clients may have killed her. In fact, Danny is probably the only person who knows about the connection between them. But if he tells the police, he’ll be deported. He spends the day agonizing over the decision, which is not helped by the fact that the potential killer keeps calling him and harassing him. I don’t know if I’ve ever read a book told in one day before. At certain times, it made me feel a little impatient for the plot to move along. But at other times, I was hit by the way the author could slow so far down and use an exacting level of detail to leave an impression. And the spiraling nature of Danny’s internal struggle hammered home the trauma he’d lived and was currently living. This book lost me sometimes. It wavered between first person and third person and here and there and then and now, all in a way that was occasionally hard to follow. But I always found my way back. The result is a book that feels very literary and cerebral (I’m not surprised to see that Adiga previously won the Booker Prize, as nominated books tend to feel that way). So it takes a little more work, but it turned out to be worth it to me in the end. It’s not too hard to find stories about illegal immigrants during their journey, or right after. I have read far fewer stories about their daily lives once they arrive. The way they are hunted, haunted, afraid, empowered and disempowered, surrounded by both comrades and foes. This book painted a portrait of an exhausting life that is still yet worth living. And for that, I’m grateful. TRIGGER WARNINGS Violence / murder Racism and racial slurs Islamophobia Review: literary thriller - yes, it's literary fiction. but it is written with careful attention to plot — such that it reads like a thriller. you'll have trouble putting it down. propulsive, clever, resonant, well-researched. effectively captures the moral complexities of living on the fringes of a "first world" society. set in australia, *amnesty* does well pointing out the hypocrisies and contradictions of that country, esp when it comes to immigration. this is a timely, frenetic, tightly-crafted novel and i recommend it highly! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #777,754 in Kindle Store ( See Top 100 in Kindle Store ) #719 in City Life Fiction (Kindle Store) #935 in Cultural Heritage Fiction #1,017 in City Life Fiction (Books) | ## Images ![Amnesty: A Novel - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71VFrgEChmL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Haunting and fascinating *by D***N on February 25, 2020* Amnesty is an in-depth look at the world from an illegal immigrant’s perspective that leaves a ringing, lasting impression. For you if: You don’t mind books that ask a little extra from you because they are more literary / cerebral. FULL REVIEW: "Nothing is simple for a man like this one. Not even being helpless. Or harmless. Life is a battle, and though unevenly so, everyone is armed." Amnesty was a really unique book, at least for me, and so it also moved me in a unique way. Told over the course of one single day, it follows an illegal immigrant living in Sydney, Australia, named Danny. Danny has been in Sydney for four years. He originally travelled there on a student visa and then applied for asylum, but was denied. So he stayed illegally. Now he has a girlfriend he loves and a steady stream of clients whose houses he cleans, so life is pretty good. But then one of them is murdered, and Danny thinks another one of his clients may have killed her. In fact, Danny is probably the only person who knows about the connection between them. But if he tells the police, he’ll be deported. He spends the day agonizing over the decision, which is not helped by the fact that the potential killer keeps calling him and harassing him. I don’t know if I’ve ever read a book told in one day before. At certain times, it made me feel a little impatient for the plot to move along. But at other times, I was hit by the way the author could slow so far down and use an exacting level of detail to leave an impression. And the spiraling nature of Danny’s internal struggle hammered home the trauma he’d lived and was currently living. This book lost me sometimes. It wavered between first person and third person and here and there and then and now, all in a way that was occasionally hard to follow. But I always found my way back. The result is a book that feels very literary and cerebral (I’m not surprised to see that Adiga previously won the Booker Prize, as nominated books tend to feel that way). So it takes a little more work, but it turned out to be worth it to me in the end. It’s not too hard to find stories about illegal immigrants during their journey, or right after. I have read far fewer stories about their daily lives once they arrive. The way they are hunted, haunted, afraid, empowered and disempowered, surrounded by both comrades and foes. This book painted a portrait of an exhausting life that is still yet worth living. And for that, I’m grateful. TRIGGER WARNINGS Violence / murder Racism and racial slurs Islamophobia ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ literary thriller *by H***R on June 12, 2025* yes, it's literary fiction. but it is written with careful attention to plot — such that it reads like a thriller. you'll have trouble putting it down. propulsive, clever, resonant, well-researched. effectively captures the moral complexities of living on the fringes of a "first world" society. set in australia, *amnesty* does well pointing out the hypocrisies and contradictions of that country, esp when it comes to immigration. this is a timely, frenetic, tightly-crafted novel and i recommend it highly! ### ⭐⭐⭐ Unstrange story of a Stranger in a Strange Land *by R***G on March 18, 2020* one of my chief complaints about nearly all novels, bestsellers i come across is that the 'imagery' is overdone. every little twitch of the characters, every little sway of the breeze, the color of the chair they might be sitting on is commented on. plus there is the attempt at poetic metaphors - Salman Rushdie claiming the clock hands coming together to usher in Midnight's Children, for example that caused us to endure a flood of 'magical realism' since - in Adiga's repeated allusions to mermaids in a lagoon in Batticalao that he can listen to if he put his reed into the water - the reader finds it hard to believe that anyone will leave such an idyllic beautiful place in Sri Lanka to clean homes as an illegal in what seems like the slums of Sydney. This kind of stream of consciouness writing seems all the voge now we have Knausgaard etc. who seem to fill pages of their memoirs , describing things that simply happen to them, and we are supposed to read and enjoy it at all simply because there is nothing better to do?! - no, it is less work to binge watch something on Netflix instead. Now I liked Aravind Adiga's White Tiger because of its somewhat realistic portrayal of an anti-hero in India - there are millions like him - and his prose is pretty good, but in Amnesty he takes on another topical issue - migration (illegal, obviously) and its effects on lives - and I dont know that I learned anything new, or got any unique perspective - yes, we already know that migrants are mostly decent human beings, even if the mostly decent countries they migrate to dont necessarily treat them that way. What I look for in a novel is a plot - a dramatic drive that keeps the story clipping along, with the moral or social observations only scenes by the side - I dont know that I got that out of Amnesty. I dont regret reading through it, but it did not leave me with any sense of realization, or closure of story that I have sought, and found with some of my favorites. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/138674797-amnesty-a-novel](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/138674797-amnesty-a-novel) --- *Product available on Desertcart Great Britain* *Store origin: GB* *Last updated: 2026-04-27*