LAST MAN IN TOWER BY ARAVIND ADIGA (HARDCOVER) OLD BOOK

Real estate developer Dharmen Shah’s offer to buy out the residents of Vishram Society – a formerly respectable, now crumbling apartment complex that abuts the infamous Dharavi slums – is more than generous. But one man stands in the way of Shah’s luxury high- rise: Masterji, a retired schoolteacher who will not leave his home in Vishram’s Tower A. Shah is a dangerous man to refuse, but as the demolition deadline looms, Masterji’s neighbors – friends who have become enemies, acquaintances turned co- conspirators – may stop at nothing to score their payday.