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the Elephant

✍ Scribed by Aravind, Adiga

Book ID
107556566
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
16 KB
Category
Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

A new short story by the author of The White Tiger is in this week’s New Yorker, and β€œThe Elephant” continues Adiga’s exploration of the cycle of poverty the caste system of India perpetuates. The main character of this story, Chenayya, is a cart-puller for Ganesh Pai Fan and Furniture store who tortures himself with shame and anger over his inability to rise above his circumstances: he was born poor. Chenayya tries all manner of options to overcome, including old fashioned hard work, the lottery, getting a factory job, and working to get Muslims elected. At every turn he is thwarted, and his anger mounts.

Note, this short story has no official cover art or ISBN.

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