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, thirtysix-million gods, slums, shopping malls, and crippling traffic jams, Balram comes to see how the Tiger might slip the bars of his cage.
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Aravind Adiga nació en la India en 1974 y pasó parte de su infancia en Australia. Fue alumno de las universidades de Oxford, en el Reino Unido, y Columbia en Estados Unidos. Ha trabajado como corresponsal para la revista Time y el diario Financial Times. Vive en Bombay, India.