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Still from the movie – The Kite Runner is looking for a brilliant, captivating,
and funny story.

Fun Facts

• The movie, based on the book
has been released on Netflix. It is
produced by Priyanka Chopra Jonas
and directed by Ramin Bahrani. The
film offers a grim tale of corruption
and betrayal, examining the complex
dynamics of the employer-servant
relationships in India while delving
into the country’s stark rich-poor
• Balram realizes he has been brainwashed divide and its class and caste issues.
into servitude. To get out of the “Chicken
Coup” Balaram commits petty crimes • The novel has been well-received,
like giving false receipts to his master or making the New York Times bestseller
using his car as a taxi on the side but he list in addition to winning the Man
rationalizes his behavior when he thinks to Booker Prize. Aravind Adiga, 33 at
himself, “The more I stole from him, the the time of receiving was the Booker
more I realized how much he had stolen prize, was the second youngest writer
from me.” as well as the fourth debut writer to
• The White Tiger attempts to tell the story of win the prize in 2008.
contemporary India, of those few who have
money and those great many who do not. • The audible version of the book is
Balaram recounts, “In the old days there superbly delivered by John Lee. He
were one thousand castes and destinies in has a quirky and unique Indian
India. These days, there are just two castes: accent which adds another layer of
Men with Big Bellies, and Men with Small drama to the narration.
Bellies”, and only two destinies: eat- or get
eaten up.”
• It’s about the vast economic inequality The White Tiger on Broadway!!!
between the poor
and the wealthy elite.
This is an amazing
and angry novel
about injustice and
power using dark
humor and satire
You wouldn’t get any
solid lessons from
the book apart from
the exposure to the
real struggle of the
deprived in India.
But the novel is worth
reading. I would
recommend this
book to anyone who

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