TY - BOOK AU - Adiga,Aravind TI - The white tiger SN - 9781848878082 (pbk.) : AV - PR9619.4.A35 PY - 2012/// CY - London PB - Atlantic KW - Poor KW - India KW - Fiction KW - Ambition KW - Delhi (India) KW - Social conditions KW - General KW - eflch N1 - Originally published: 2008 N2 - Meet Balram Halwai, the 'White Tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer. Born in a backwater village on the River Ganges, the son of a rickshaw-puller, Balram works in a teashop crushing coals, wiping tables and dreaming of escape. Driven by a desire to better himself, he comes to see how the tiger might escape his cage ER -