Aravind Adiga

Relocating to New Delhi when he is offered a new job, Balram Halwai is disillusioned by the city's twenty-first-century materialism and technology-spawned violence, a circumstance that forces him to question his loyalties, ambitions, and past. A first novel. 75,000 first printing.

The White Tiger

Balram Halwai is the White Tiger - the smartest boy in his village. His family is too poor for him to afford for him to finish school and he has to work in a teashop, breaking coals and wiping tables. But Balram gets his break when a rich man hires him as a chauffeur, and takes him to live in Delhi. The city is a revelation. As he drives his master to shopping malls and call centres, Balram becomes increasingly aware of immense wealth and opportunity all around him, while knowing that he will never be able to gain access to that world. As Balram broods over his situation, he realizes that there is only one way he can become part of this glamorous new India - by murdering his master. The White Tiger presents a raw and unromanticised India, both thrilling and shocking - from the desperate, almost lawless villages along the Ganges, to the booming Wild South of Bangalore and its technology and outsourcing centres. The first-person confession of a murderer, The White Tiger is as compelling for its subject matter as for the voice of its narrator - amoral, cynical, unrepentant, yet deeply endearing.

O tigre branco

Selection Day

O protagonista de 'O Tigre Branco' relata o trajeto que percorreu para subir na vida e conseguir se tornar alguém importante no cenário nacional - assassinar seu patrão. Em cartas dirigidas ao primeiro-ministro chinês ele justifica seu crime classificando-o como um ato de empreendedorismo.

النمر الأبيض

The white tiger [Arabic edition]

Last man in tower

Matthias Bode

Aravind Adiga, The white tiger

***NOMINATED FOR AN ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY*** ***NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX PRODUCTION STARING PRIYANKA CHOPRA AND PRODUCED BY AVA DUVERNAY*** 'As angry, smart and dark as Parasite.' Standard 'The anti-Slumdog Millionaire' Hollywood Reporter ___________ Here's a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life - possessive, even. You know more about him than his father and mother; they knew his foetus, but you know his corpse. 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 cockroaches, call-centres, thirty-six-million gods, slums, shopping malls, and crippling traffic jams, Balram comes to see how the Tiger might slip the bars of his cage.

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008

Parce que la police l’accusait à tort d’être membre des Tigres tamouls, Danny – Dhananjaya Rajaratnam – a fui le Sri Lanka pour trouver refuge en Australie. Là-bas, il espère le statut de demandeur d’asile. Mais sa requête est rejetée. Depuis quatre ans, il vit sans papiers, tente de s’insérer en rasant les murs, fait des ménages dans un quartier résidentiel de Sydney. Un matin, Danny apprend le meurtre d’une de ses employeuses. Lorsqu’il s’aperçoit qu’il détient un indice sur le crime – un indice qui permettrait d’arrêter le coupable –, Danny se trouve confronté à un dilemme. Doit-il parler à la justice, au risque d’être expulsé ? Ou se taire, et laisser un meurtrier s’enfuir ? Après Le Tigre blanc, chronique de l’Inde des bas-fonds, Adiga s’attaque à la face cachée de Sydney : celle des invisibles, des travailleurs sans-papiers qui chaque jour balaient nos rues et nettoient nos appartements sans laisser de trace. Perdu dans un enfer administratif, Danny embarque dans une véritable odyssée du doute ; tour à tour courageux, cynique ou résigné, il tourne en rond, revient sur ses pas, prend des décisions et les abandonne immédiatement. Avec Amnistie, Aravind Adiga signe un conte moral grinçant, qui questionne notre rapport aux frontières et à ceux qui les dépassent.

Amnistie

Eine Geschichte um Geld und Macht, Luxus und Entbehrung, ein breites Gemälde der Menschen in Bombay und nicht zuletzt das Porträt einer brodelnden Stadt - "Der letzte Mann im Turm" wirft einen tiefen Blick in die Herzen und Köpfe der Bewohner einer Mega-City - einfache Menschen, die an einem Ort ohne Grenzen bis an ihre Grenzen getrieben werden. Wen man in Bombay auch nach der "Vishram Society" fragen würde Turm A der "Vishram Cooperative Wohnungsbaugesellschaft" -, jeder würde sagen, dass diese Wohnanlage in der Nähe des Flughafens und am Rande von Slums dennoch eine gute Adresse ist. Aber nicht nur Bombay hat sich in den letzten fünfzig Jahren verändert - und heißt jetzt Mumbai -, auch der Immobilienmarkt - überall in Mumbai wird abgerissen, Neues gebaut und viel frisches Geld ist in Umlauf. Als der Immobilientycoon Dharmen Shah den Bewohnern von Vishram Society das Angebot macht, sie rauszukaufen, damit er einen Luxusapartment-Komplex errichten kann, ist sein Angebot mehr als großzügig. Aber nicht jeder ist bereit, auszuziehen und dafür viel Geld mitzunehmen, das Angebot gilt jedoch nur, wenn alle zustimmen! Die Anspannung steigt unter den Bewohnern, und einer, der pensionierte Lehrer Masterji, einst am meisten respektiert, ist nun das Hindernis für diesen Deal. Shah ist ein gefährlicher Gegner, aber auch alte Freunde können zu Feinden werden...

Roman

Letzter Mann im Turm

From the Booker Prize–winning author of The White Tiger, a stunning novel of greed and murder in contemporary Mumbai. At the heart of Adiga's gripping second novel ("his plots don’t unwind, they surge" —USA Today) are two equally compelling men, poised for a showdown. Real estate developer Dharmen Shah rose from nothing to create an empire and hopes to seal his legacy with a luxury building named the Shanghai. Larger-than-life Shah is a dangerous man to refuse. But he meets his match in retired schoolteacher Masterji. Shah offers a generous buyout to Masterji and his neighbors in a once respectable, now crumbling apartment building on whose site Shah’s high-rise would be built. They can’t believe their good fortune. Except, that is, for Masterji, who refuses to abandon the building he has long called home. As the demolition deadline looms, desires mount; neighbors become enemies, and acquaintances turn into conspirators who risk losing their humanity to score their payday. Here is a richly told, suspense-fueled story of ordinary people pushed to their limits in a place that knows none: the new India as only Aravind Adiga could explore—and expose—it.

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