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Läs ett provkapitel här Möt Balram Halwai, Den vita tigern: tjänare, filosof, entreprenör, mördare. Under sju nätter, i ljuset av en befängd ljuskrona, berättar Balram sin historia ... Han föds i Indiens mörka hjärta, och tas ur skolan för att a...

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Meet Balram Halwai, the 'White Tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer. Balram was born in a backwater village on the River Ganges, the son of a rickshaw-puller. He works in a teashop, crushing coal and wiping tables, but nurses a dre...

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From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga, comes the story of an undocumented immigrant who becomes the only witness to a crime and must face an impossible moral dilemma. 'Alive with empathy, indignation a...

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WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008 Balram Halwai is the White Tiger - the smartest boy in his village. His family is too poor for him to afford for him to finish school and he has to work in a teashop, breaking coals and wiping tables. But Balram...

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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The stunning Booker Prize-winning novel from the author of Amnesty and Selection Day that critics have likened to Richard Wright's Native Son, The White Tiger follows a darkly comic Bangalore driver through the poverty a...

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The magnificent new novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger: LONGLISTED FOR THE 2013 IMPAC AWARD. 21st Century Mumbai is a city of new money and soaring real estate, and property kingpin Dharmen Shah has grand plans for its f...

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Here's a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life - possessive, even. You know more about him than his father and mother; they knew his foetus, but you know his corpse. Meet Balram Halwai, the 'White Tiger': servant, philo...

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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The stunning Booker Prizewinning novel from the author of Amnesty and Selection Day that critics have likened to Richard Wright's Native Son, The White Tiger follows a darkly comic Bangalore driver through the poverty an...

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Adiga provides both a chronological and geographical framework for this collection of stories, a prequel to his Man Booker-winning "The White Tiger" (2008). The stories take place during the years between the assassinations of Indira Gan...

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Selection Day is a captivating, witty novel by the Man Booker Prize winning author of The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga. 'The most exciting novelist writing in English today' A. N. Wilson One of the New York Times "100 Notable Books of 2017"...

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Selection Day is a captivating, witty novel by the Man Booker Prize winning author of The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga.'The most exciting novelist writing in English today' A. N. WilsonOne of the New York Times "e;100 Notable Books of 2017"e...

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Selection Day is a captivating, witty novel by the Man Booker Prize winning author of The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga. 'The most exciting novelist writing in English today' A. N. Wilson Manjunath Kumar is fourteen. He knows he is good at cricket - ...

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A Guardian, Financial Times, The Millions, Vulture, and Buzzfeed's Most Anticipated of 2020 'An immigrant's view conveyed with authority and wit . . . Adiga is a startlingly fine observer, and a complicator, in the manner of V.S. Naipaul.' New Yor...

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A young illegal immigrant has crucial information about a murder. Should he come forward and risk deportation, or let a killer go unpunished? In Sydney, Sri Lankan immigrant Dhananjaya Rajaratnam - now known as to all as Danny - has overstayed his...

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From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga, comes the story of an undocumented immigrant who becomes the only witness to a crime and must face an impossible moral dilemma.'Alive with empathy, indignation an...

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***NOMINATED FOR AN ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY*** ***NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX PRODUCTION STARING PRIYANKA CHOPRA AND PRODUCED BY AVA DUVERNAY*** 'As angry, smart and dark as Parasite.' Standard 'The anti-Slumdog Millionaire' Hollywood Re...

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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...

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Nestling on India's southern coast lies the town of Kittur. Ranging through the city's streets and schoolyards, bedrooms and businesses, its inner workings and its outer limits, through the myriad and distinctive voices of its inhabitants, Aravind...

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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The stunning Booker Prize-winning novel from the author of Amnesty and Selection Day that critics have likened to Richard Wright's Native Son, The White Tiger follows a darkly comic Bangalore driver through the poverty a...

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Balram Halwai, der "weiße Tiger", erzählt in Form von Briefen an den chinesischen Premierminister eine Geschichte über ein Indien fern von allen Klischees. Hier geht es um das wahre indische Leben auf den Straßen - vom Microsoft-Call-Cen...

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Der Roman zur gleichnamigen Netflix-Verfilmung! Balram Halwai - der «weiße Tiger» - erzählt uns mit unwiderstehlichem Charisma die schreckliche und zugleich faszinierende Geschichte seines unwahrscheinlichen Aufstiegs und beleuchtet dabei schonung...

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Danny, eigentlich Dhananjaya Rajaratnam und ursprünglich aus Sri Lanka, ist der Status als Flüchtling in Australien verwehrt worden. Nun wohnt er als Illegaler im Lagerraum eines Supermarkts in Sydney und schlägt sich seit drei Jahren als Putzkraf...

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Der Roman zur gleichnamigen Netflix-Verfilmung! Balram Halwai - der "weiße Tiger" - erzählt uns mit unwiderstehlichem Charisma die schreckliche und zugleich faszinierende Geschichte seines unwahrscheinlichen Aufstiegs und beleuchtet dabe...

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Auf dem Spielfeld des Lebens Manju ist vierzehn. Er weiß, dass er ein guter Cricketspieler ist, vielleicht sogar so gut wie sein älterer Bruder Radha. Er weiß, warum er seinen sportbesessenen Vater fürchtet und von amerikanischen Fernsehserien fas...

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<Text textformat="05">Königs Erläuterungen - Textanalyse und Interpretation mit ausführlicher Inhaltsangabe und AbituraufgabenIn einem Band bieten dir die neuen Königs Erläuterungen alles, was du zur Vorber...

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Mellan attentaten utspelar sig i den indiska staden Kittur tiden mellan morden på Indiria Gandhi (1984) och hennes son Rajiv Gandhi (1991). I fjorton sammanlänkade berättelser skildrar Aravind Adiga ett mikrokosmos av landet när han ger röst åt mä...

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Mellan attentaten utspelar sig i den indiska staden Kittur tiden mellan morden på Indiria Gandhi (1984) och hennes son Rajiv Gandhi (1991). I fjorton sammanlänkade berättelser skildrar Aravind Adiga ett mikrokosmos av landet när han ger röst åt mä...

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I femtio år har det höga huset stått pall för alla förändringar som Bombay genomgått. Nu har fastighetsmogulen Dharmen Shahen fått upp ögonen för marken som huset står på, här ska rivas och byggas nytt. Han erbjuder en stor summa pengar till alla ...

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»En psykologisk thriller som man sträckläser med samma febriga nyfikenhet som en bra deckare.« Dagens Nyheter Balram Halwai föds i en fattig familj på den indiska landsbygden. Tidigt tas han ur skolan för att arbeta i en teservering och bidra till...

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