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Event
- Title:
- Southbank Centre Book Club: Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger
- When:
- 11.07.2009 15.30 h
- Where:
- Southbank Centre - London
- Category:
- Poetry/Prose/Books
Description
In the Festival Riverside
Southbank Centre Book Club reads Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger, winner of the 2008 Booker Prize. Balram, the White Tiger, was born in a backwater village but nurses a dream of escape. When he learns that a rich village landlord needs a chauffeur, he takes his opportunity. Driven by ambition, he comes to see how the Tiger might escape his cage. This tale presents a raw and unromanticised India, both thrilling and shocking.
'The novel undertakes the extraordinarily difficult task of gaining and holding the reader's sympathy for a thoroughgoing villain. The book gains from dealing with pressing social issues and significant global developments with astonishing humour.' Michael Portillo
Please note - this free event requires a ticket. You can reserve your ticket online (£1.45 transaction fee) or by phone 0871 663 2500 (£2.50 transaction fee). Transaction fees apply per transaction, not per ticket. You can also reserve your seat without a transaction fee by visiting one of our Southbank Centre Ticket Offices in person.
Venue
- Venue:
- Southbank Centre - Website
- Street:
- Belvedere Road
- ZIP:
- SE1 8XX
- City:
- London
Description
Southbank Centre is located in on the Thames riverside between Golden Jubilee and Waterloo Bridges, in Central London.
Tube: Waterloo (Bakerloo, Northern, Jubilee and Waterloo & City lines), Embankment (Circle and District lines)
Download a map of the South Bank Centre
Switchboard: +44 (0)871 663 2501
Ticket Office: +44 (0)871 663 2500
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