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.
Winner of Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008.
Title: The White Tiger
Subtitle:
Contributors:
By (author)
Aravind Adiga
ISBN 13: 9781848878082
ISBN 10: 1848878087
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Imprint: Atlantic Books
Publication Date: 1/03/2012
Place of Publication:
London,
United Kingdom
Edition:
BIC Subjects:
General & literary fiction
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Dewey Classification:
823.92
(DC23)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm