DANNY – DHANANJAYA RAJARATNAM – IS AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN SYDNEY, DENIED REFUGEE STATUS AFTER HE HAS FLED FROM HIS NATIVE SRI LANKA. WORKING AS A CLEANER, LIVING OUT OF A GROCERY STOREROOM, FOR THREE YEARS HE’S BEEN TRYING TO CREATE A NEW IDENTITY FOR HIMSELF. AND NOW, WITH HIS BELOVED VEGAN GIRLFRIEND, SONJA, WITH HIS HIDDEN ACCENT AND HIGHLIGHTS IN HIS HAIR, HE IS AS CLOSE AS HE HAS EVER COME TO LIVING A NORMAL AUSTRALIAN LIFE. BUT THEN ONE MORNING, DANNY LEARNS A FEMALE CLIENT OF HIS HAS BEEN MURDERED. WHEN DANNY RECOGNIZES A JACKET LEFT AT THE MURDER SCENE, HE BELIEVES IT BELONGS TO ANOTHER OF HIS CLIENTS ? A DOCTOR WITH WHOM HE KNOWS THE WOMAN WAS HAVING AN AFFAIR. SUDDENLY DANNY IS CONFRONTED WITH A CHOICE: COME FORWARD WITH HIS KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE CRIME AND RISK BEING DEPORTED, OR SAY NOTHING, AND LET JUSTICE GO UNDONE? OVER THE COURSE OF A SINGLE DAY, EVALUATING THE WEIGHT OF HIS PAST, HIS DREAMS FOR THE FUTURE, AND THE UNPREDICTABLE, OFTEN ABSURD REALITY OF LIVING INVISIBLY AND UNDOCUMENTED, HE MUST WRESTLE WITH HIS CONSCIENCE AND DECIDE IF A PERSON WITHOUT RIGHTS STILL HAS RESPONSIBILITIES. PROPULSIVE, INSIGHTFUL, AND FULL OF ARAVIND ADIGA’S SIGNATURE WIT AND MAGIC, AMNESTY IS BOTH A TIMELESS MORAL STRUGGLE AND A UNIVERSAL STORY WITH PARTICULAR URGENCY TODAY.
श्रीलंकेचा मूळ रहिवासी असलेला धनंजय ऊर्फ डॅनी सिडनीत बेकायदेशीर स्थलांतर करतो. साफसफाईची कामं करून किराणा मालाच्या स्टोअर रूममध्ये लपून राहतो. एके दिवशी डॅनीला आपल्या एका मालकिणीचा - राधा थॉमसचा सुरा भोसकून खून झाल्याचं कळतं. त्याला हेही कळतं की, खून झाला, तेव्हा तिच्या अंगावर एक जॅकेट होतं. डॅनीच्या कल्पनेनुसार ते जॅकेट त्याच्या आणखी एका मालकाचं होतं. डॅनीला माहीत होतं की, त्या बाईचं त्या माणसाबरोबर प्रेमप्रकरण चाललेलं आहे. आता त्याच्यासमोर आकस्मिकपणे एक यक्षप्रश्न उभा आहे. खुनामागील ही हकिगत माहीत असणारा साक्षीदार म्हणून पुढे येऊन मायदेशी रवाना होण्याचा धोका पत्करावा की गप्प राहून अन्याय घडू द्यावा?
डॅनीचा स्वतःच्याच सदसद्विवेकबुद्धीबरोबर झगडा सुरू होतो. एका देशांतरित माणसाच्या मनोवस्थेचा, आजच्या जगातील त्याच्या एका विशिष्ट अवघड आणि म्हणूनच निकडीच्या झालेल्या अवस्थेचा रहस्यपूर्णतेने तरी व्यामिश्रतेने घेतलेला वेध