Meet Balram Halwal, 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 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 of 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?
Boekinformatie
Schrijver: Aravind Adiga
Titel: The White Tiger
Uitgeverij: Atlantic Books (GB)
Jaartal: 2008
Bladzijden: 322
Genre: geen
Leeftijd: 18+
Mening: geen sterren
- Ik heb dit boek gekocht in juli 2009 (ik heb dit boek niet meer in bezit, verkocht via Marktplaats)
- Ik las dit boek in 2009 en dit was boek 31 van de boeken die ik in 2009 gelezen heb