Libro
Adiga, Aravind
The white tiger : a novel / Aravind Adiga
New York [u.a.] : Free Press, 2012
Titolo e contributi: The white tiger : a novel / Aravind Adiga
Pubblicazione: New York [u.a.] : Free Press, 2012
Descrizione fisica:
288 S. ; 19 cm
ISBN: 9781439137697
Data:2012
Lingua:
Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese:
xx
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Abstract:
Meet 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..