The White Tiger

Author BiographyAravind Adiga was born in Madras in 1974 and was raised partly in Australia. He studied at Columbia and Oxford Universities. A former correspondent in India for TIME magazine, his articles have also appeared in publications like The Financial Times, The Independent, and The Sunday Times. He lives in Mumbai.

出版者:Atlantic Books

作者:Aravind Adiga

页数:321

出版时间:2008-3-1

价格:GBP 12.99

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781843547204

图书标签:印度小说布克奖小说英文原版英文资本主义布克奖政治

Synopsis

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.

读后感

在豆瓣开了一个专栏，主要写投资与自我管理方面，欢迎关注：http://read.douban.com/column/93927/ 靖昀兄推荐，阅读体验很奇妙。感谢。 我估记此篇在未来会被拍成电影。 一方面里面的故事内容是虚构的；另一方面作者文笔相当生动，而本人又对印度了解得不多，看过《贫民窟...  

13年游走印度的时候我一直有不解，跟中国相比那些不收门票的寺庙总是香火极旺当地信徒虔诚敬拜人数极多，可“以XXX神的名义向你保证”却也是商贩们讨价还价的常用语调。比如在瓦拉纳西看宗教仪式，跑过来当导游的小伙子会首先警告你尊重仪式不能拍照，而后会带你到旁边选取一个...

This is first book I ever read about India, which recommended by a financial theory professor. But I don't think he implies us to follow the strategy of Balram to become an "entrepreneur" by murdering his master, taking possession of his money which suppose...  

用户评价

老师借我的，了解印度蛮好的。

老师借我的，了解印度蛮好的。

我们的优越感从何而来？ 这何尝不是现代的中国。

大学时有次听耶鲁的经济学公开课教授推荐，用小人物的视角对印度社会嬉笑怒骂，写的非常棒，也是因为这本书认识了前男友

Another "hero" from the Indian slum.