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The white tiger : a novel / Aravind Adiga.
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| Authors: |
Adiga, Aravind.
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New York : Free Press, 2008.
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1st Free Press hardcover ed.
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| Description: |
276 p. ; 23 cm.
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Chauffeurs -- India -- Bangalore -- Fiction. Poor -- India -- Bangalore -- Fiction. Ambition -- Fiction. Businesspeople -- India -- Bangalore -- Fiction. Bangalore (India) -- Fiction. |
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Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life -- having nothing but his own wits to help him along.
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Finalist for the 2008 Man Booker fiction prize.
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English |
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9781416562597 1416562591 |
| Bib number: |
6857778 |
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http://lens.lib.uchicago.edu/?itemid=|library/marc/uc|6857778 |
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