The Story of My Assassins - Hardcover

Tejpal s masterful U.S. debut is an epic tale of modern-day India and its labyrinthine social and political machinations. --Publisher's Weekly

Tarun Tejpal is clever and inventive. In the profoundest way he writes for India. --V.S. Naipaul

Deeply humane, raucously funny, dizzy with social and psychological insight! A masterful account of 21st-century ambition, inequality, and power from one of India s most fearless writers. --Katherine Boo, Pulitzer Prize winner

A Dickensian tale of brutality and mayhem in the underbelly of contemporary India...touches on greatness. --Financial Times

Tarun Tejpal's highest ambitions are to take on the big ideas of the age...happily he succeeds because the ideas are embedded in the story, not arbitarily pinned onto the characters. --Literary Review

Brilliantly evoked... He spares us nothing in his depiction of the lust, cruelty and despair which are to be found towards the bottom of the heap in India. ----The Independent

Tarun Tejpal's highest ambitions are to take on the big ideas of the age...happily he succeeds because the ideas are embedded in the story, not arbitarily pinned onto the characters. --Literary Review

Tarun J. Tejpal is a journalist, publisher, novelist and founder of Tehelka, one of India s leading news magazines that is renowned for its aggressive public interest journalism. He has been named one of India s most influential people by The Guardian, Businessweek and Asiaweek.