Autor: Aravind Adiga

Ean: 9781843547228

Isbn: 978-1-84354-722-8

Wydawca: Atlantic Books

Oprawa: oprawa broszurowa

Ilość stron: 322

Wymiary: 13x19.5 cm

Data wydania: 2008

`[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, 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…