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The White Tiger

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  • Booker Prize (2008)
  • John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Nominee (2008)
  • PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize Nominee (2009)
  • Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize Nominee (2008)
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The White Tiger

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ISBN: 9781439137697
Authors: Aravind Adiga
Publisher: Free Press
Date of Publication: 2008-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Topics: Literature, Crime
Goodreads rating: 3.76
(rated by 189603 readers)

Description

Balram Halwai is the White Tiger - the smartest boy in his village. His family is too poor for him to afford 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 unromanticized 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 centers. 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.
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