Introduction Chapter 1 Aravind Adiga who was born on 23 October 1974 is an Indian-Australian writer and journalist. His debut novel, The White Tiger, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize. The novel studies the contrast between India's rise as a modern global economy and the lead character, Balram, who comes from crushing rural poverty. The novel provides a darkly humorous perspective of India’s class struggle in a globalized world as told through a retrospective narration from Balram Halwai, a village boy
The Hidden Meaning Nikos Kazantzakis says, “Everything in the world has a hidden meaning” and this can certainly apply to the novel Vaclav & Lena, by Haley Tanner. In the novel, one of the protagonists named Vaclav has a passion for magic and Lena is his assistant. They perform tricks for Vaclav’s parents because Lena doesn’t have any parents. One of their magic tricks is the disappearing coin trick, where Vaclav borrows a coin from his father and makes it magically disappear gaining praise from