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The White Tiger (eBook)
Short Description for The White TigerWINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008 WINNER OF THE GALAXY BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 'AUTHOR OF THE YEAR' 2009 '[An] extraordinary and brilliant first novel - Adiga is a real writer - that is to say, someone who forges an original voice and vision.' Sunday Times
Full description- Publisher: ATLANTIC BOOKS
- Published: 01 October 2009
- Format: eBook 336 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781848870987 ISBN 10: 1848870981
- Sales rank: 77,833
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Full description for The White Tiger
Meet Balram Halwai, the 'White Tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer. Balram was born in a backwater village on the River Ganges, the son of a rickshaw-puller. He works in a teashop, crushing coal and wiping tables, but nurses a dream of escape. When he learns that a rich village landlord needs a chauffeur, he takes his opportunity, and is soon on his way to Delhi at the wheel of a Honda. Amid today's India's cockroaches and call-centres, its 36,000,004 gods, slums, shopping malls, and crippling traffic jams, Balram learns of a new morality at the heart of a new India. Driven by desire to better himself, he comes to see how the Tiger might escape his cage - through murder.

