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Useful for coursework (e.g. WJEC sets as an example a comparative study of place in post-colonial literature)
Balram Halwai, the narrator of Aravind Adiga’s novel The White Tiger (2008) is born into the rural ‘darkness’ of Bihar and rises to the bright lights of Bangalore (the epicentre of India’s boom) through murder, theft and betrayal. Ram Mohammad Thomas in Vikas Swarup’s Q&A (2005) becomes the ‘slumdog millionaire’ of Danny Boyle’s film because his makeshift history has provided him with the right answers to a television quiz.
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