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'Danny Rajaratnam, the protagonist of the bracing new novel by Aravind Adiga, “Amnesty,” has a vegan girlfriend. She looks at him and says things like: “You know what milk is? A kind of pus. Think about that, you’re guzzling pus.”' (Introduction)