Cult Classics: The White Tiger
- 336 páginas
- 12 horas de lectura
Blazingly savage and brilliant Sunday Telegraph
La escritura de Aravind Adiga profundiza en las complejidades de la India moderna, centrándose a menudo en las vidas de quienes se encuentran en sus márgenes sociales. Su estilo es directo y sin concesiones, exponiendo los marcados contrastes entre la riqueza y la pobreza, la tradición y la modernidad. Adiga enfrenta a los lectores con verdades incómodas sobre la globalización y su impacto en las vidas individuales. A través de personajes cautivadores y temas provocadores, ofrece una visión aguda y perspicaz de la sociedad india contemporánea.







Blazingly savage and brilliant Sunday Telegraph
When Manju begins to get to know Radha's great rival, a boy as privileged and confident as Manju is not, everything in Manju's world begins to change and he is faced with decisions that will challenge both his sense of self and of the world around him . . . A moving and beautifully observed... číst celé
When he relocates to New Delhi to take a new job, Balram Halwai is disillusioned by the city's materialism and technology-spawned violence, a circumstance that forces him to question his loyalties, ambitions, and past.
Aravind Adiga's highly anticipated new novel, now in paperback and beautifully packaged in tandem with The White Tiger and Between the Assassinations.
A fictional story of India in the 80s, the years after the assassination of Indira Gandhi.
An unnamed narrator writes a series of letters to his daughters, explaining how his life has gone wrong. The letters, spanning the narrator's life in India and England, and having as their unwavering focus his daughter and the relationship between them, speak of hopes unfulfilled, of promises broken.
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 ..."
Este é novo romance do autor de O Tigre Branco, o aplaudido Booker Prize de 2008. A obra desenvolve-se como um um guia de viagem a uma cidade imaginária, Kittur, situada na costa sudoeste da Índia, a meio caminho entre Goa e Calecute, durante o período de sete anos que decorreu entre os assassinatos de Indira Gandhi e do seu filho Rajiv. São catorze histórias que se sobrepõem formando um mapa vivo da cidade, decorrendo cada uma em diferentes zonas de Kittur. Aravind Adiga retoma muitos dos temas presentes em O Tigre Branco, mas recorre agora a múltiplos narradores diferentes. Uma obra que o conduz à descoberta fascinante da Índia actual.