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A poor young man in India who longs for a life where the grass is greener. “The White Tiger” taps engagingly into the rags-to-riches, Horatio-Alger-on-the-Ganges mythology that made “Slumdog ...
The White Tiger is a novel by Indian author Aravind Adiga. It was published in 2008 and won the 40th Booker Prize the same year. [ 1 ] The novel provides a darkly humorous perspective of India's class struggle in a globalized world as told through a retrospective narration from Balram Halwai, a village boy.
Kylie Chan is an Australian author, best known for The Dark Heavens trilogy, set in modern-day Hong Kong. [1] [2] The first novel in the trilogy, White Tiger, was published in July 2006, followed by Red Phoenix in January 2007.
White Tiger (Russian: Белый тигр, translit. Byeli tigr) is a 2012 Russian war film , directed by Karen Shakhnazarov and co-written with Aleksandr Borodyansky based on the novel The Tankman, or The White Tiger ( Russian : Танкист, или “Белый тигр” , Tankist, ili "Byeli tigr") by Russian novelist Ilya Boyashov.
It was Adiga's second published book, though it was either written before his first, The White Tiger, [6] or written in parallel with The White Tiger. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] The title refers to the period between the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984 and the assassination of her son, Rajiv Gandhi , in 1991. [ 4 ]
Aravind Adiga was born in Madras (now Chennai) on 23 October 1974 to Dr. K. Madhava Adiga and Usha Adiga from Mangalore.His paternal grandfather was K. Suryanarayana Adiga, former chairman of Karnataka Bank, [6] [7] and maternal great-grandfather, U. Rama Rao, was a popular medical practitioner and Congress politician from Madras.
The White Tiger is a 1987 novel by Robert Stuart Nathan. The story takes place in China, after the rule of Mao Zedong . The book is divided into four parts, the titles of which are Chinese proverbs .
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