For Tuesday's class, you need to have read the first 36 pages of Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger (and Indian novel).
As you will soon discover, The White Tiger is presented as an epistolary novel, a series of letters written over the period of seven nights. I will be curious to know what you think about this narrator named Balram. Do you like him? Do you hate him? Something between the two?
As you will figure out right away, the person Balram is writing to is the premier of China, Wen Jiabao, due to visit the city Balram is living in -- Bangalore, India -- in a week's time. What, one wonders, could possess an Indian entrepreneur living in Bangalore to write at such length to the premier of China?
What do you think?? Happy reading and see you on Tuesday!
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