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DANNY - DHANANJAYA RAJARATNAM - IS AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN SYDNEY, DENIED REFUGEE STATUS AFTER HE HAS FLED FROM HIS NATIVE SRI LANKA. WORKING AS A CLEANER, LIVING OUT OF A GROCERY STOREROOM, FOR THREE YEARS HE'S BEEN TRYING TO CREATE A NEW IDENTITY FOR HIMSELF. AND NOW, WITH HIS BELOVED VEGAN GIRLFRIEND, SONJA, WITH HIS HIDDEN ACCENT AND HIGHLIGHTS IN HIS HAIR, HE IS AS CLOSE AS HE HAS EVER COME TO LIVING A NORMAL AUSTRALIAN LIFE. BUT THEN ONE...

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Balram Halwai - der «weiße Tiger» - erzählt uns mit unwiderstehlichem Charisma die schreckliche und zugleich faszinierende Geschichte seines unwahrscheinlichen Aufstiegs und beleuchtet dabei schonungslos die Abgründe der modernen indischen Kastengesellschaft. Balram kommt aus einem armen Dorf im Herzen Indiens. Seine düsteren Zukunftsaussichten hellen sich auf, als er, der klügste Junge im Dorf, als Fahrer für den reichsten Mann am Ort engag...

An "urgent and significant book [that] speaks to our times" (The New York Times Book Review) from the bestselling, Man Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger and Selection Day about a young illegal immigrant who must decide whether to report crucial information about a murder—and thereby risk deportation.Danny—formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam—is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia, denied refugee status after he fled from Sri Lanka...

The iconic Booker Prize-winner: an unforgettable novel of corruption, murder and twisted morality in contemporary India, now a Netflix film.

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, 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 dream of...

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 schonungslos die Abgründe der modernen indischen Kastengesellschaft. Balram kommt aus einem armen Dorf im Herzen Indiens. Seine düsteren Zukunftsaussichten hellen sich auf, als er, der klügste Junge im Dorf...

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 and corruption of modern India's caste society. "This is the authentic voice of the Third World, like you've never heard it before" (John Burdett, Bangkok 8).The white tiger of this novel is Balram Hal...

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 York TimesFrom the bestselling, Man Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger and Selection Day, Aravind Adiga, comes the story of an undocumented immigrant who becomes the only witness to a crime ...

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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 Putzkraft durch. Er ist nahe dran, ein beinahe normales Leben führen zu können. Aber dann erfährt er, dass eine seiner Kundinnen ermordet worden ist. Details vom Tatort lassen ihn vermuten, der Liebhaber der...

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Adiga is a novelist . . . one who has grown in his art since his Booker Prize-winning debut, The White Tiger.' Kamila Shamsie, Guardian'Adiga is a real writer - that is to say, someone who forges an original voice and vision' Sunday Times'The most exciting novelist writing in English today.' A. N. Wilson'[Adiga] is not merely a confident storyteller but also a thinker, a skeptic, a wily entertainer, a thorn in the side of orthodoxy and cant . ...

‘Adiga is a novelist . . . one who has grown in his art since his Booker Prize-winning debut, The White Tiger.’ Kamila Shamsie, Guardian‘Adiga is a real writer – that is to say, someone who forges an original voice and vision’ Sunday Times‘The most exciting novelist writing in English today.’ A. N. Wilson‘[Adiga] is not merely a confident storyteller but also a thinker, a skeptic, a wily entertainer, a thorn in the side of orthodoxy and cant ....

A riveting, suspenseful, and exuberant novel from the bestselling, Man Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger and Selection Day about a young illegal immigrant who must decide whether to report crucial information about a murder—and thereby risk deportation.Danny—formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam—is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia, denied refugee status after he fled from Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery ...

From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger and Amnesty, a "ferociously brilliant" (Slate) novel about two brothers coming of age in a Mumbai slum, raised by their crazy, obsessive father to be cricket champions. *A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES * AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A NEW YORK TIMES and WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOKManjunath Kumar is fourteen and living in a slum in Mumbai. He knows he is good at cricket—if not as...

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 fasziniert ist. Aber es gibt noch vieles, das er nicht weiß. Als er Radhas großen Rivalen Javad kennenlernt, fängt Manju an, vieles infrage zu stellen - und muss Entscheidungen treffen, die seine Welt v...