by Aravind Adiga · Nova Fronteira · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788520920855
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«O Tigre Branco» is the literary fiction novel by Aravind Adiga, published by Nova Fronteira in paperback (263 pages, in Brazilian Portuguese).
Balram Halwai, born in rural poverty in India, writes letters to the Chinese prime minister to tell how he went from driver to businessman in Bangalore. With irony and audacity, he justifies the murder of his boss as an act of entrepreneurship and offers a scathing critique of relations between rich and poor and of contemporary society.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2008, the work was originally published as The White Tiger; translation by Maria Helena Rouanet.
For readers of literary fiction and contemporary narrative with an interest in India and in stories of social ascent narrated with irony.
Aravind Adiga is an Indian-born Australian writer and journalist. His debut novel, The White Tiger, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize.
