White Tiger

Winnaar van de Man Booker Prize 2008

Auteur Aravind Adiga, Adiga Aravind

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ISBN

9781843547204

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Prijswinnaars

Bindwijze

Hardcover

Taal

Engels

Auteur

Aravind Adiga, Adiga Aravind

Uitgeverij

Atlantic Books

Jaar van uitgifte

2008

Aantal pagina’s

336

Waar gaat het over?

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 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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