Aravind adiga
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham in his compelling new work of fiction, aravind adiga has imagined the small indian city of kittur, an everytown nestling on the coast south of goa and north of calicutjourneying through kittur's streets and schoolyards, bedrooms and businesses, its inner workings and outer limits, adiga conjures a remarkable fictional landscapefrom a middle-aged communist to an islamic terrorist; from the young children of a tamil building-site worker to a privileged and alienated schoolboy; from an idealistic journalist to a brahmin housemaid, adiga has produced a microcosm of indian life in the 80s, the years between the assassinations of indira gandhi and her son rajivthrough the myriad and distinctive voices of its inhabitants, an entire indian world comes vividly and unforgettably to lifemuslim, christian and hindu, high-caste and low-caste, rich and poor: all of indian life - the 'sorrowful parade of humanity' - is heresee oxfam website for delivery information read moresizzling with acid observations, and textured with wicked humour and gentle humanity, between the assassinations is a triumph of voice and imagination
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adiga is a real writer - that is to say, someone who forges an original voice and visionwhen 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 hondabalram was born in a backwater village on the river ganges, the son of a rickshaw-pulleroxfam bookshop hertford winner of the man booker prize winner of the galaxy british book awards 'author of the year' 'an extraordinary and brilliant first novel' sunday times meet balram halwai, the 'white tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderersee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe works in a teashop, crushing coal and wiping tables, but nurses a dream of escapeamid today's india's cockroaches and call-centres, its gods, slums, shopping malls, and crippling traffic jams, balram learns of a new morality at the heart of a new indiadriven by desire to better himself, he comes to see how the tiger might escape his cage
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