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The White Tiger By Aravind Adiga (Paperback, 2012)

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008Balram Halwai is the White Tiger - the smartest boy in his village His family is too poor for him to afford for him 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 unromanticised 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 centres 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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WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008 Balram Halwai is the White Tiger
- the smartest boy in his village His family is too poor for him to afford for him to finish school & he has to work in a teashop breaking coals & wiping tables But Balram gets his break when a rich man hires him as a chauffeur & takes him to live in Delhi The city is a revelation As he drives his master to shopping malls & call centres Balram becomes increasingly aware of immense wealth & 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 & unromanticised India both thrilling & shocking
- from the desperate almost lawless villages along the Ganges to the booming Wild South of Bangalore & its technology & outsourcing centres 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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