Buy this book on-line ADIGA**, ARAVIND: : THE WHITE TIGERLONDON.ATLANTIC BOOKS,2008. ISBN 9781843547204.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.] FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn - but owner's ex-libris blue inked,oval stamp to bottom corner of ffe, and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,clean, white background with 3-colour block (brown,orange and black) illustrated dw/dj, with b/w+brown lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread? Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,
blocked silver gilt letters to spine/
backstrip and near immaculate plain maroon
endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-321pp [paginated] includes 7 sections/chapters,
plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,
dedication,and 7 section/chapter separator
pages.Author's debut novel and Man Booker Prize winner,for this year (2008).See also,my book ID rja580315 for author's 2nd novel 'Between the Assassinations'.
Meet Balram Halwai,the 'White Tiger': servant,philosopher,entrepreneur,murderer.Over the course of seven nights,by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier,Balram tells his story. . .
Born in a village in the dark heart of India,the son of a rickshaw puller,Balram is taken out of school by his family and put to work in a teashop.As he crushes coal and wipes tables,he nurses a dream of
escape - of breaking away from the banks of Mother Ganga,into whose murky depths have seeped the remains of a hundred generations.
His big chance comes when a rich village landlord hires him as a chauffeur for his son,daughter-in-law,and their two Pomeranian dogs.From behind the wheel of a
Honda,Balram first sees Delhi.The city is a revelation.Amid the cockroaches and call-centres,the 36,000,004 gods,the slums,the shopping malls and the crippling traffic jams,Balram's re-education begins.
Caught between his instinct to be a loyal son and servant,and his desire to better himself,he learns a new morality at the heart of a new India.As the other servants
flick through the pages of Murder Weekly,
Balram begins to see how the Tiger might escape his cage.For surely any successful man must spill a little blood on his way to the top?
'The White Tiger' is a tale of two Indias. Balram's journey from the darkness of village life to the light of entrepreneurial success is utterly amoral,
brilliantly irreverent,deeply endearing and altogether unforgettable.
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