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White Tiger, The
Author: Adiga Aravind
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Retail Price: | $19.99 |
Betabooks Price | $15.99 |
ISBN: 9781848878082
Format: Paperback
Published: April 2014
Published By: Allen and Unwin
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Published: April 2014
Published By: Allen and Unwin
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Product Description
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2008, now beautifully repackaged in tandem with Between the Assassinations and Last Man in Tower.Description
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 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.