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The white tiger : a novel / Aravind Adiga.

Adiga, Aravind. (Author).

Summary:

Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life--having nothing but his own wits to help him along.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781416562603
  • ISBN: 1416562605
  • ISBN: 9781416562597
  • ISBN: 1416562591
  • Physical Description: 288 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: 1st Free Press edition
  • Publisher: New York : Free Press, 2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes a reading group guide and A conversation with Aravind Adiga (pages 279-288).
Awards Note:
Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2008
Subject:
Chauffeurs > India > Bangalore > Fiction.
Poor > India > Bangalore > Fiction.
Ambition > Fiction.
Businesspeople > India > Bangalore > Fiction.
Bangalore (India) > Fiction.
Genre:
Epistolary fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.

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