Aravind Adiga · 2008 · road

Aravind Adiga's 2008 Booker winner, told in letters to the Chinese premier. Balram Halwai, born in a poor village in the 'Darkness' of rural Bihar, becomes a driver for a rich family and rides with them from the village to Delhi. Amid the corruption and servitude of the capital, he commits a murder that frees him - and reinvents himself as an entrepreneur in booming Bangalore.

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   Laxmangarh

   The impoverished village in the 'Darkness' of rural India where Balram is born into servitude, dreaming of escape from the rooster coop of the poor.

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   Delhi

   The capital where Balram serves as chauffeur to his rich master, absorbing the corruption and cruelty of the city until he resolves on the violent act that will free him.

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   Bangalore

   The booming southern tech city where Balram reinvents himself as an entrepreneur on the proceeds of his crime, a self-made 'white tiger' at last.