by Aravind Adiga · Free Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781439137697
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«The White Tiger» is the novel by Aravind Adiga, published by Free Press in paperback (304 pages, in English).
Balram Halwai, a young man from a poor village, works as a driver in Delhi and observes from the margins the wealth of the new India. In a letter addressed to the president of China, he recounts his transformation into an entrepreneur in Bangalore and, with irony, describes the inequality, the caste system and the corruption of the country.
Winner of the 2008 Booker Prize, it was Aravind Adiga's first novel.
Recommended for readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in today's India, social critique and morally ambiguous characters.
Aravind Adiga is an Indian-born Australian writer and journalist. His debut novel, The White Tiger, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize.
