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THE WHITE TIGER
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| By: |
Aravind Adiga |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
1843547228 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781843547228 |
| Publisher: |
ATLANTIC BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
17 January, 2009 |
| Edition: |
Main |
| Pages: |
336 |
| Description: |
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008WINNER 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 |
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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. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Atlantic Books |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Galaxy British Book Awards: Borders Author of the Year 2009
Winner of Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008
Short-listed for Independent Booksellers' Week Book of the Year Award:
Short-listed for Heathrow Travel Product Award: Travel Read, Fiction 2009
Short-listed for John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize 2008 |
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