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Thorndike Press large print reviewers' choiceAdiga, Aravind.
Summary: No saris. No scents. No spices. No music. No lyricism. No illusions. This is India now. Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life - having nothing but his own wits to help him...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2008
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Adiga, Aravind.
Summary: In this short story collection set in the Indian city of Kittur sometime between the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984 and that of her son Rajiv in 1991, Adiga creates a cast of characters--from a twelve-year old boy to a Marxist-Maoist Party member--who are immersed in class struggles and their own personal denouements.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADIAdiga, Aravind.
Summary: Searing. Explosive. Lyrical. Compassionate. Here is the astonishing new novel by the Man Booker Prize--winning author of The White Tiger, a book that took rage and anger at injustice and turned it into a thrilling murder story. Now, with the same fearlessness and insight, Aravind Adiga broadens his canvas to give us a riveting story of money and power, luxury and deprivation, set in the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011
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Adiga, Aravind.
Summary: Refusing to leave his home when a powerful real-estate developer offers to buy out the residents of a crumbling apartment complex near the infamous Dharavi slums, a retired schoolteacher becomes a target of violence by the developer and his own neighbors.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADIAdiga, Aravind.
Summary: Relocating to New Delhi when he is offered a new job, Balram Halwai is disillusioned by the city's twenty-first-century materialism and technology-spawned violence, a circumstance that forces him to question his loyalties, ambitions, and past.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ADIAdiga, Aravind.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2008