| Titre : |
The White tiger |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé (livres, articles, périodiques) |
| Auteurs : |
Aravind Adiga (1974-....), Auteur |
| Editeur : |
London : Atlantic books |
| Année de publication : |
2008 |
| Importance : |
1 vol. (321 p.) |
| Présentation : |
couv. ill. en coul. |
| Format : |
18 cm |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-1-84354-722-8 |
| Prix : |
6.99 GBP |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Mots-clés : |
Littérature anglaise Anglais (langue) Fiction |
| Index. décimale : |
823.92 |
| Résumé : |
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. |
The White tiger [texte imprimé (livres, articles, périodiques)] / Aravind Adiga (1974-....), Auteur . - London : Atlantic books, 2008 . - 1 vol. (321 p.) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 18 cm. ISBN : 978-1-84354-722-8 : 6.99 GBP Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Mots-clés : |
Littérature anglaise Anglais (langue) Fiction |
| Index. décimale : |
823.92 |
| Résumé : |
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. |
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