The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Balram Halwai is the White Tiger - the smartest boy in his village. His family is too poor for him to afford for him to finish school and he has to work in a teashop, breaking coals and wiping tables. But Balram gets his break when a rich man hires him as a chauffeur, and takes him to live in Delhi. The city is a revelation. As he drives his master to shopping malls and call centres, Balram becomes increasingly aware of immense wealth and opportunity all around him, while knowing that he will never be able to gain access to that world. As Balram broods over his situation, he realizes that there is only one way he can become part of this glamorous new India - by murdering his master. The White Tiger presents a raw and unromanticised India, both thrilling and shocking - from the desperate, almost lawless villages along the Ganges, to the booming Wild South of Bangalore and its technology and outsourcing centres. The first-person confession of a murderer, The White Tiger is as compelling for its subject matter as for the voice of its narrator - amoral, cynical, unrepentant, yet deeply endearing.
'In the grand illusions of a 'rising' India, Aravind Adiga has found a subject Gogol might have enviedWith remorselessly and delightfully mordant wit The White Tiger anatomizes the fantastic cravings of the rich; it evokes, too, with starting accuracy and tenderness, the no less desperate struggles of the deprived.' Pankaj Mishra
Aravind Adiga was born in Madras in 1974. He has lived in India, Australia, America and the UK, and he currently lives in Mumbai. The White Tiger is his first novel.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781843547204 |
| ISBN 10 | 1843547201 |
| Title | The White Tiger |
| Author | Aravind Adiga |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Atlantic Books |
| Year published | 2008-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Prizes | Winner of Galaxy British Book Awards: Borders Author of the Year 2009, Winner of Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008, Short-listed for Independent Booksellers' Week Book of the Year Award: Adults' Book of the Year 2009, Short-listed for Heathrow Travel Product Award: Travel Read, Fiction 2009, Short-listed for John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize 2008 |
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