by Aravind Adiga · HarperCollins India · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788172238476
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«The White Tiger» is the novel by Aravind Adiga, published by HarperCollins India in paperback (328 pages, in English).
Balram Halwai, son of a rickshaw puller in a rural village, escapes poverty by working in a tea shop and then as a chauffeur in Delhi. The novel contrasts that impoverished India with the emerging, opulent one, and follows the ambitious social rise of its protagonist with mordant irony.
The first novel by Aravind Adiga, winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize.
Suitable for readers of contemporary literary fiction and social satire, and for book clubs.
Aravind Adiga is an Indian-born Australian writer and journalist. His debut novel, The White Tiger, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize.
