PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9780857896193
- Categories Asian Literature, BX, BXOS, extraordinary, F LIT, Fiction, PNSG_OCT, R/R, WBD
- Author(s) Aravind Adiga
- Publisher Atlantic Books
- Pages 336
- Format Paperback
- Dimensions 11.0cm x 2.4cm x 17.8cm
- Weight 0.185 kg
product 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 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.