The Best Reviews on the Dark Humor Book - The Story of My Assassins - Series Tie- in Edition

Tarun Tejpal has provided a very realistic portrayal of the society, which is so intimately intertwined with outlaw culture coexisting with the compassionate part of our nature. a wonderful viewpoint. The story keeps you up at night.

Tejpal is a master at creating political and social aphorisms that are especially applicable to India. The Story of My Assassins' strength resides not in these neat generalisations but rather in how it handles the ugly minutiae of steel and flesh, according to Victor Mallet of the Financial Times.

"Tejpal transports us into the many, masterfully depicted worlds that these guys live in. He shows us the lust, brutality, and misery that characterise India's underclass in no uncertain terms. — Peter Popham, Independent on Sunday

Tejpal is neither taking a picnic in the all-too-familiar Other India, nor is he romanticising the basic brutality of the Indian countryside. Moreover, he is a storyteller who is too intelligent to give in to the allure of biography, even though the narrator works in journalism and the magazine is in dire need of funding. The Story of My Assassins is a counter-narrative from a person who has been selected by the state to support a falsehood. It is an argument with strength." India Today, S. Prasannarajan

Tejpal, a co-founder of the activist Indian publication Tehelka, avoids clichés to portray the sorrow, humour, colour, and brutality of modern India better than anybody else I have read in my three years as a correspondent here. The Observer's Jason Burke

"Tejpal is one of India's best-known English authors, and few other English books from this country are as beautifully detailed and realistic as Assassins. Tejpal is a fantastically perceptive writer.

With just a few strokes, he masterfully conjures the city's industrial power plant. Assassins is more than simply entertainment. It also educates. The Great Delhi Novel of the modern era will undoubtedly be this one." from Manjushree Thapa of Outlook India.

"The epic narrative of contemporary India and its complex social and political intrigues is told in Tejpal's excellent U.S. debut. The book succeeds on a variety of levels: it is a broad indictment of government bureaucracy, a revelation of the complex effects of retaliation, an exposé of the shocking violence inflicted upon victims of circumstance, and a brazen censure of how technology has quashed imagination — it is also a philosophical treatise on how to live one's life to the fullest." publisher's weekly

"It is written in an unusual, racy vernacular that is as grating as it is thought-provoking, and it is occasionally harsh and other times sharp. The language of Tejpal is eccentric. Once you start reading the book, at least until the fifth section, you won't want to stop since it is plain, journalistic, crass, and verging on vulgar." from Shams Afif Siddiqi of The Telegraph (Calcutta)

"The gratifying discovery is that Mr. Tejpal writes with wonderful élan; his book is a chic, educated potboiler that reads like a mash-up of Alexandre Dumas and India's old national epic, the Mahabharata. Mr. Tejpal offers a thrilling vision of a nation seized by Darwinian striving as he adds colour to the specifics of these interwoven lives." - Sam Sacks from the Wall Street Journal.