Aravind Adiga
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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From the Booker Prize–winning author of The White Tiger, a stunning novel of greed and murder in contemporary Mumbai.
At the heart of Adiga's gripping second novel ("his plots don’t unwind, they surge" —USA Today) are two equally compelling men, poised for a showdown.
Real estate developer Dharmen Shah rose from nothing to create an empire and hopes to seal his legacy with a luxury building
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"A young undocumented immigrant in Sydney, Australia is forced to choose between reporting the murder of a female client-- and risking deportation-- or staying silent."--
Dhananjaya "Danny" Rajaratnam is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia, denied refugee status after he fled from Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he's been trying to create a new identity for himself. Danny learns a female client...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The white tiger of this novel is Balram Halwai, a poor Indian villager whose great ambition leads him to the zenith of Indian business culture, the world of the Bangalore entrepreneur. On the occasion of the president of China's impending trip to Bangalore, Balram writes a letter to him describing his transformation and his experience as driver and servant to a wealthy Indian family, which he thinks exemplifies the contradictions and complications...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Manjunath Kumar is fourteen and living in a slum in Mumbai. He knows he is good at cricket--if not as good as his older brother Radha. But there are many other things about himself and the world that he doesn't know. Sometimes it even seems as though everyone has a clear idea of who Manju should be, except Manju himself. And when Manju meets Radha's great rival, a mysterious Muslim boy privileged and confident in all the ways Manju is not, he is forced...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
487 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Winner of the 2008 Man-Booker Prize for The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga now offers a blinding, brilliant, and brave mosaic of Indian life as it is lived in a place called Kittur, between the assassinations of Indira Gandhi in 1984 and Rajiv Gandhi in 1991. Kittur is an extraordinary crossroads of the brightest minds and the poorest morals, the up-and-coming and the downtrodden, and the poets and prophets of an India that modern literature has rarely...
