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    A Study Guide for Aravind Adiga's "The White Tiger"
    A Study Guide for Aravind Adiga's "The White Tiger"
    A Study Guide for Aravind Adiga's "The White Tiger"
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    A Study Guide for Aravind Adiga's "The White Tiger"

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    A Study Guide for Aravind Adiga's "The White Tiger", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateMay 15, 2018
    ISBN9781410393210
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      A Study Guide for Aravind Adiga's "The White Tiger" - Gale

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      The White Tiger

      Aravind Adiga

      2008

      Introduction

      The White Tiger is Indian novelist Aravind Adiga's first novel. It was published in 2008 and won the prestigious Man Booker Prize that year. Set in India, it is narrated by a man named Balram Halwai. Balram is an entrepreneur in Bangalore, and the novel consists of a series of seven letters he writes to Wen Jiabao, then the prime minister of China, who is soon to visit Bangalore. In these letters, Balram relates his life story.

      Balram was born in a small village where the people lived in extreme poverty. He had little education but a lot of initiative, and he managed to become a driver for a wealthy man in Delhi. Balram tells the Chinese premier early on that he eventually murdered his employer and stole money from him, which enabled him to move south to Bangalore and set himself up in business. As he tells his story, Balram shows how India is divided into two different countries, which he calls the Light and the Darkness, His descriptions of the Darkness reveal the depths of the poverty and humiliations suffered by vast numbers of Indians even as India's overall economic growth and prosperity increases.

      Author Biography

      Adiga was born on October 23, 1974, in Chennai (formerly Madras), India, the son of Dr. K. Madhava and Usha Adiga. He was raised in the southern coastal city of Mangalore, where he had his initial schooling. He also read a lot for his own enjoyment, especially English twentiethcentury authors such as G. K. Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw, J. B. Priestley, and Somerset Maugham. When he was nearly sixteen, the family emigrated to Sydney, Australia, where he attended James Ruse Agricultural High School. An outstanding student, Adiga went on to enroll at Columbia University in New York, from which he graduated with a degree in English literature in 1997. After that he studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, England.

      Adiga began his career as a financial journalist, taking an internship at the Financial Times, where he published articles on topics such as the stock market and interviews of well-known people in the financial world. He also wrote literary reviews. From 2003 to 2005, he was South Asia correspondent for Time magazine. Then he left to pursue a freelance writing career. He wrote a first draft of The White Tiger in 2005, but in December of the following year, he began to rewrite it entirely. The novel was published in 2008 and won the Man Booker

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