Winner · The Booker Prize 2008
The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga
book by Aravind Adiga
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.
Synopsis from Open Library.
- Language
- English
- Genre
- epistolary novel
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN
- 9781410408778
- Subjects
- Business people, Man Booker Prize Winner, Chauffeurs, Poor, Businesspeople, Ambition in fiction, Poor in fiction, Chauffeurs in fiction
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