The White Tiger | 誠品線上

白老虎

內容簡介

內容簡介 他是僕人、哲學家、企業家同時也是殺人犯。巴爾拉姆是村莊中最聰明的男孩。但是貧窮的家境，無法讓他完成學業，於是他離開了學校，在一個茶館謀生。巴爾拉姆夢想可以逃離這個貧困的小村莊，一直到有個富翁僱用他當司機，帶他到新德里。當他開著車到繁華的市中心，巴蘭‧哈外意識到巨大的財富和機會都圍繞在他身邊，雖然這是他永遠無法獲得的世界。大都市的生活向巴蘭‧哈外揭示了許多新的道德規則--宗教並不創建美德，錢也無法解決所有的問題，如果你想要獲得你所希望的完美的生活，多少要付出一些代價。只有謀殺主人，才能讓他成為這個魅力四射的新印度的一部份。雖然這涉及暴力罪行，但是巴蘭告訴自己，但這是成功人士的必經之路。在五光十色的城市生活當中，由貧困的村莊生活到光明的企業成功，由僕人變成企業家，巴蘭的旅程由一套道德標準轉變成另一套新的潛規則。Here's a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life - possessive, even. You know more about him than his father and mother; they knew his foetus, but you know his corpse. Meet Balram Halwai, the 'White Tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur... murderer. Balram was born in a backwater village on the River Ganges, the son of a rickshaw-puller. He works in a teashop, crushing coal and wiping tables, but nurses a dream of escape. When he learns that a rich village landlord needs a chauffeur, he takes his opportunity, and is soon on his way to Delhi at the wheel of a Honda. Amid cockroaches, call-centres, thirtysix-million gods, slums, shopping malls, and crippling traffic jams, Balram comes to see how the Tiger might slip the bars of his cage.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Aravind AdigaAravind Adiga was born in Madras in 1974 and was India correspondent at Time magazine. The White Tiger, his debut novel, won the Man Booker Prize. Adiga has gone on to write Last Man in Tower and Between the Assassinations.

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