Meet Balram Halwai, the 'White Tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer. Balram was born in a backwater village on the River Ganges, the son of a rickshaw-puller. He works in a teashop, crushing coal and wiping tables, but nurses a dream of escape. When he learns that a rich village landlord needs a chauffeur, he takes his opportunity, and is soon on his way to Delhi at the wheel of a Honda. Amid today's India's cockroaches and call-centres, its 36,000,004 gods, slums, shopping malls, and crippling traffic jams, Balram learns of a new morality at the heart of a new India. Driven by desire to better himself, he comes to see how the Tiger might escape his cage ...through murder.
| ISBN | 1848878087 | | DEWEY edition | DC23 | | ISBN13 | 9781848878082
(What's this?) | | Pages | 336 | | Publisher | Atlantic Books | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Atlantic Books | | Previous ISBN | 9781843547228 | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Publication date | 01 Mar 2012 | | Width (mm) | 129 | | DEWEY | 823.92 | | Academic level | General |
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