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OverviewMeet Balram Halwai, the 'White Tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur and murderer. Balram, the White Tiger, 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 behind the wheel of a Honda. Amid the cockroaches and call-centres, the 36,000,004 gods, the slums, the shopping malls, and the 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... Full Product DetailsAuthor: Aravind AdigaPublisher: Gale Cengage Imprint: Gale Cengage Edition: large type edition Dimensions: Width: 14.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.567kg ISBN: 9781410408778ISBN 10: 1410408779 Pages: 397 Publication Date: 01 August 2008 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Undefined Publisher's Status: Unknown Availability: Out of stock Table of ContentsReviewsUnlike almost any other Indian novel you might have read in recent years, this page-turner offers a completely bald, angry, unadorned portrait of the country as seen from the bottom of the heap; there's not a sniff of saffron or a swirl of sari anywhere.... [Narrator] Balram himself is an enticing figure...but even more impressive is the nitty-gritty of Indian life that Adiga unearths -- the corruption, the class system, the sheer petty viciousness. -- Andrew Holgate, The Sunday Times ( London) Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |