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Aravind Adiga

    October 23, 1974

    Aravind Adiga's writing delves into the complexities of modern India, often focusing on the lives of those on its social fringes. His style is direct and unflinching, exposing the stark contrasts between wealth and poverty, tradition and modernity. Adiga confronts readers with uncomfortable truths about globalization and its impact on individual lives. Through compelling characters and provocative themes, he offers a sharp, insightful look at contemporary Indian society.

    Aravind Adiga
    הטיגריס הלבן
    Amnesty
    Last Man in Tower
    The White Tiger. Der weiße Tiger, englische Ausgabe
    Between the Assassinations Ome. Zwischen den Attentaten, englische Ausgabe
    he White Tiger
    • 2020

      La 4e de couverture indique : "Danny - formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam - is an undocumented Sri Lankan immigrant. Denied refugee status, working as a cleaner and living out of a grocery storeroom in Sydney, for four years he has been trying to create a new identity for himself, finally coming as close as he ever has to living a normal life. One morning, Danny learns that his client Radha Thomas has been murdered. A jacket was left at the scene, which he believes belongs to another client, a doctor with whom Radha was having an affair. Suddenly Danny is confronted with a choice: Come forward as a witness and risk being deported? Or say nothing, and let justice go undone? Over the course of a single ordinary yet extraordinary day, he must wrestle with his conscience and decide if a person without rights nevertheless has responsibilities ..."

      Amnesty
    • 2017

      Born in a village in heartland 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 coals and wipes tables, he nurses a dream of escape—of breaking away from the banks of Mother Ganga, into whose depths have seeped the remains of a hundred generations. The White Tiger is a tale of two Indias. Balram’s journey from darkness of village life to the light of entrepreneurial success is utterly amoral, brilliantly irreverent, deeply endearing and altogether unforgettable.

      he White Tiger
    • 2016

      Selection Day

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      3.3(40)Add rating

      A moving story of adolescence, ambition and self-realization: when a fourteen- year-old boy tries out for Mumbai's under-nineteen cricket team and meets his older brother's rival, everything in his world begins to change.

      Selection Day
    • 2011

      Every building tells a story: but in the jungle of Mumbai, one building - and one man - stands on the borderline between India's past, and its future...

      Last Man in Tower
    • 2008

      The White Tiger

      • 321 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      3.8(5135)Add rating

      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.

      The White Tiger
    • 2008
    • 2008

      In this short story collection set in the Indian city of Kittur sometime between the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984 and that of her son Rajiv in 1991, Adiga creates a cast of characters--from a twelve-year old boy to a Marxist-Maoist Party member--who are immersed in class struggles and their own personal denouements.

      Between the assassinations