by Aravind Adiga · 2008
In a series of letters addressed to the Chinese Premier, Balram Halwai, a driver-turned-entrepreneur, recounts his rise from a poor village in "the Darkness" of rural India to a self-made businessman in Bangalore. His darkly comic confession lays bare the corruption, servitude, and class violence of a rapidly modernizing India, and the ruthless act that freed him from the "Rooster Coop."