Aravind Adiga Libri

Balram Halwai, "la Tigre Bianca di Bangalore", scrive una lunga lettera al primo ministro cinese Wen Jiabao. Sebbene si presenti come "un imprenditore nel centro mondiale della tecnologia e outsourcing", per gran parte del romanzo è un servo. Nato a Laxmangarh, figlio di un conducente di risciò, dopo la morte del padre viene tolto dalla scuola e inizia a lavorare in un chiosco del tè. Una volta in città, decide di diventare autista per un ricco signore. Dopo alcune lezioni di guida, si presenta a Mr Ashok, il figlio di uno dei boss dell'industria del carbone di Laxmangarh, che lo assume come vice autista e servo. Scopre che il primo autista è un musulmano che si finge indù e lo ricatta, diventando così il principale autista di Mr Ashok e della moglie a Delhi. Apprezzato per la sua onestà e la sua mitezza, Balram sviluppa un crescente risentimento verso le umiliazioni subite. Mentre trasporta il padrone tra i ministeri, si rende conto delle infinite possibilità che lo circondano, consapevole di non poter mai far parte di quel mondo.

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

Every building tells a story: but in the jungle of Mumbai, one building - and one man - stands on the borderline between India's past, and its future...

In this short story collection set in the Indian city of Kittur sometime between the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984 and that of her son Rajiv in 1991, Adiga creates a cast of characters--from a twelve-year old boy to a Marxist-Maoist Party member--who are immersed in class struggles and their own personal denouements.

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 ..."