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La Tigre Bianca

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Seduto alla sua scrivania, l'imprenditore autodidatta Balram Halwai, detto la Tigre Bianca, scrive sette lucide e impietose lettere al primo ministro cinese che si appresta a visitare l'India. Gli racconta delle proprie origini e della propria storia: la storia di un ragazzo di una delle caste più basse che da un fangoso villaggio all'interno del paese (dove "ogni buona notizia si tramuta in una cattiva notizia, e in fretta") arriva a New Delhi, dove mall luccicanti, sontuosi palazzi e auto tirate a lucido da magri autisti in ciabatte si accostano a bordelli di lusso con bionde prostitute dell'Europa dell'est. Qui, nel nuovissimo quartiere di Gurgaon, Balram Halwai assiste alla progressiva e inarrestabile corruzione del suo padrone, ne assimila la mentalità e intuisce che il modo per fuggire dalla gabbia della miseria esiste: commettere un omicidio, rubare e mettersi in proprio. Grazie a un duro lavoro, a pasti trangugiati in fretta, a un codice morale dettato dalle necessità produttive, ma soprattutto applicando le auree regole degli affari apprese da Mr Ashok, il suo defunto ex principale, il successo non tarda ad arrivare. Per il futuro si vedrà: forse potrebbe investire parte del proprio capitale in una scuola per i bambini poveri di Bangalore: una scuola piena di Tigri Bianche, in cui non si parli né di Gandhi, né dei 36 milioni di divinità indiane.

Author: Aravind Adiga (all their books in stock)
Genre: Fiction
Format: Hardback
Published: 2008
Pages: 232
Publisher: Giulio Einaudi Editore
ISBN: 9788806192006

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