Aravind Adiga Knihy

Dojemný, hněvivý a hořce humorný příběh o dvou Indiích vypráví Balrám alias Bílý tygr, sluha, filozof, podnikatel i vrah, během sedmi nocí pod okázalým lustrem. Narodil se ve vesnici jako syn rikši, ale brzy byl poslán pracovat do čajovny, kde sní o úniku z temného srdce Indie. Jeho šance přichází, když ho bohatý statkář najme jako šoféra pro svou rodinu. Poprvé za volantem hondy spatří Dillí, město plné kontrastů – mezi šváby a call-centry, bohy a slumy. Balrám se ocitá na křižovatce mezi loajalitou vůči své rodině a touhou po úspěchu. Zatímco ostatní sluhové čtou bulvární časopisy, Balrám se učí, jak uniknout ze své klece. Jeho cesta z vesnického života do podnikatelského úspěchu je nemorální, brilantně neuctivá a nezapomenutelná. Autor s nelítostným, sarkastickým humorem analyzuje potřeby bohatých a s přesností líčí zoufalý boj chudých. Nabízí syrový, rozhořčený obraz země z pohledu těch nejchudších, bez romantizace. Román získal Bookerovu cenu 2008 a stal se britským bestsellerem.

Born in a village in heartland India, the son of a rickshaw puller, Balram is taken out of school by his family and put to work in a teashop. As he crushes coals and wipes tables, he nurses a dream of escape—of breaking away from the banks of Mother Ganga, into whose depths have seeped the remains of a hundred generations. The White Tiger is a tale of two Indias. Balram’s journey from darkness of village life to the light of entrepreneurial success is utterly amoral, brilliantly irreverent, deeply endearing and altogether unforgettable.

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE GALAXY BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 'AUTHOR OF THE YEAR

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...

A moving story of adolescence, ambition and self-realization: when a fourteen- year-old boy tries out for Mumbai's under-nineteen cricket team and meets his older brother's rival, everything in his world begins to change.

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.

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 ..."

Este é novo romance do autor de O Tigre Branco, o aplaudido Booker Prize de 2008. A obra desenvolve-se como um um guia de viagem a uma cidade imaginária, Kittur, situada na costa sudoeste da Índia, a meio caminho entre Goa e Calecute, durante o período de sete anos que decorreu entre os assassinatos de Indira Gandhi e do seu filho Rajiv. São catorze histórias que se sobrepõem formando um mapa vivo da cidade, decorrendo cada uma em diferentes zonas de Kittur. Aravind Adiga retoma muitos dos temas presentes em O Tigre Branco, mas recorre agora a múltiplos narradores diferentes. Uma obra que o conduz à descoberta fascinante da Índia actual.