Pattisson has seen slavery round the world. Its basic outlines are the same everywhere, drawn in the crude cruelties of poverty and violence. Poor people have to borrow money from predatory employers to stay alive; they then suffer intimidation, beatings and rape if they make trouble or try to escape. “Violence or the threat of violence underpins it everywhere,” he says. “Poverty forces them into slavery; violence keeps them there.”
LOST
A dead son, murdered, his father suspects, for a liaison with an upper-caste girl.
