La 4e de couverture indique : "Danny - formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam - is an undocumented Sri Lankan immigrant. Denied refugee status, working as a cleaner and living out of a grocery storeroom in Sydney, for four years he has been trying to create a new identity for himself, finally coming as close as he ever has to living a normal life. One morning, Danny learns that his client Radha Thomas has been murdered. A jacket was left at the scene, which he believes belongs to another client, a doctor with whom Radha was having an affair. Suddenly Danny is confronted with a choice: Come forward as a witness and risk being deported? Or say nothing, and let justice go undone? Over the course of a single ordinary yet extraordinary day, he must wrestle with his conscience and decide if a person without rights nevertheless has responsibilities ..."
Aravind Adiga Ordre des livres
L'écriture d'Aravind Adiga explore les complexités de l'Inde moderne, se concentrant souvent sur la vie de ceux qui se trouvent en marge de la société. Son style est direct et sans concession, exposant les contrastes saisissants entre richesse et pauvreté, tradition et modernité. Adiga confronte les lecteurs à des vérités inconfortables sur la mondialisation et son impact sur les vies individuelles. À travers des personnages captivants et des thèmes provocateurs, il offre un regard vif et perspicace sur la société indienne contemporaine.







- 2020
- 2016
Selection Day
- 352pages
- 13 heures de lecture
A moving story of adolescence, ambition and self-realization: when a fourteen- year-old boy tries out for Mumbai's under-nineteen cricket team and meets his older brother's rival, everything in his world begins to change.
- 2011
Every building tells a story: but in the jungle of Mumbai, one building - and one man - stands on the borderline between India's past, and its future...
- 2010
Este é novo romance do autor de O Tigre Branco, o aplaudido Booker Prize de 2008. A obra desenvolve-se como um um guia de viagem a uma cidade imaginária, Kittur, situada na costa sudoeste da Índia, a meio caminho entre Goa e Calecute, durante o período de sete anos que decorreu entre os assassinatos de Indira Gandhi e do seu filho Rajiv. São catorze histórias que se sobrepõem formando um mapa vivo da cidade, decorrendo cada uma em diferentes zonas de Kittur. Aravind Adiga retoma muitos dos temas presentes em O Tigre Branco, mas recorre agora a múltiplos narradores diferentes. Uma obra que o conduz à descoberta fascinante da Índia actual.
- 2008
A fictional story of India in the 80s, the years after the assassination of Indira Gandhi.
- 2008
Le tigre blanc
- 320pages
- 12 heures de lecture
Dans les "Ténèbres", vaste région au coeur d'une Inde miséreuse et violente, chacun sait que la Shining India ne brille pas pour tous! Balram Halwai, surnommé le Tigre Blanc pour son intelligence hors norme, est pourtant décidé à conquérir sa place au soleil. Immoral et cynique, il ne reculera devant aucun moyen, quitte à y perdre son âme... Un premier roman couronné parle Booker Prize en 2008.