The White Tiger

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  • Booker Prize (2008)
  • John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Nominee (2008)
  • PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize Nominee (2009)
  • Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize Nominee (2008)
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The White Tiger

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ISBN: 9781843547228
Authors: Aravind Adiga
Publisher: Atlantic
Date of Publication: 2009-03-01
Format: Paperback
Related Topics: Literature, Crime
Goodreads rating: 3.76
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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...
 

  • Booker Prize (2008)
  • John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Nominee (2008)
  • PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize Nominee (2009)
  • Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize Nominee (2008)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.