Title: | The White Tiger |
Authors: | Adiga,Aravind, Author |
Material Type: | printed text |
Publisher: | Harper Collins Publishers, 2008 |
ISBN (or other code): | 9788172237455 |
Size: | 321p. |
General note: | Novel picaresque indien |
Languages: | English |
Original Language: | English |
Class number: | 891.43 |
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Abstract: | The white tiger of this novel is Balram Halwai, a poor Indian villager whose great ambition leads him to the zenith of Indian business culture, the world of the Bangalore entrepreneur. On the occasion of the president of China’s impending trip to Bangalore, Balram writes a letter to him describing his transformation and his experience as driver and servant to a wealthy Indian family, which he thinks exemplifies the contradictions and complications of Indian society. |
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