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Apr 22, 2008 · The White Tiger is the debut novel by Indian author Aravind Adiga. It was first published in 2008 and won the 40th Man Booker Prize in the same year. The novel provides a darkly humorous perspective of India’s class struggle in a globalized world as told through a retrospective narration from Balram Halwai, a village boy.
The White Tiger is a novel by Indian author Aravind Adiga. It was published in 2008 and won the 40th Booker Prize the same year. The novel provides a darkly humorous perspective of India's class struggle in a globalized world as told through a retrospective narration from Balram Halwai, a village boy.
May 15, 2021 · The White Tiger By Arvind Adiga. The novel provides a darkly humorous perspective of India 's class struggle in a globalized world as told through a retrospective narration from Balram Halwai, a village boy.
The White Tiger is the story of Balram Halwai ’s life as a self-declared “self-made entrepreneur”: a rickshaw driver’s son who skillfully climbs India’s social ladder to become a chauffer and later a successful businessman.
Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger attempts to reveal the "real India" which is almost always hidden behind the façade of the "Incredible India" campaign put into motion by our government. The protagonist Balram Halwai alias Munna writes of his own experiences to the Chinese prime minister, the fictional Mr. Jiabao.
- Aravind Adiga
The White Tiger. by Aravind Adiga. Buy Study Guide. The White Tiger Summary. The entire novel is narrated through letters by Balram Halwai to the Premier of China, who will soon be visiting India. Balram is an Indian man from an impoverished background, born in the village of Laxmangarh.
Apr 22, 2008 · Aravind Adiga. Simon and Schuster, Oct 14, 2008 - Fiction - 288 pages. Introducing a major literary talent, The White Tiger offers a story of coruscating wit, blistering suspense, and...
A stunning literary debut critics have likened to Richard Wright's Native Son, The White Tiger follows a darkly comic Bangalore driver through the poverty and corruption of modern India's caste society.
- Aravind Adiga
Mar 1, 2008 · Aravind Adiga’s brilliantly irreverent tale of two Indias charts one man’s evolution from village waiter to larcenous killer to amoral entrepreneur. The son of a rickshaw puller, Balram is taken out of school by his family and put to work in a teashop.
Jun 15, 2011 · Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous...
