Adiga, Aravind <br/><br/>
The white tiger / 
Aravind Adiga. 
 - London :  Atlantic Books,  2009. 
 - 321 p. ;  20 cm. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/> Winner of the Man Booker Price 2008. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781843547228 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Poor--India--Fiction<br/>Ambition--India--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/> Delhi (India)-- Social conditions--Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>823