Aravind Adiga's new wrecking ball of a novel

Feuds over property and deadly clashes over land are as much a part of India's economic rise as call centers and the foreign acquisitions made by its leading companies.

The background of millions of personal struggles between the forces of economic development and those clinging to their homes has been taken up by one of India's brightest young literary talents in his second novel.

Aravind Adiga, whose debut novel The White Tiger won the Booker prize in 2008, sets his new book in a scruffy tower block in his adopted home of Mumbai, a swirling mass of 16 million people, slums, apartment buildings and Bollywood.