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The White Tiger

The White Tiger

by Aravind Adiga (Author)

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    Paperback 2008

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Synopsis

Meet Balram Halwai, the 'White Tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer. Balram was born in a backwater village on the River Ganges, the son of a rickshaw-puller. He works in a teashop, crushing coal and wiping tables, but nurses a dream of escape. When he learns that a rich village landlord needs a chauffeur, he takes his opportunity, and is soon on his way to Delhi at the wheel of a Honda. Amid today's India's cockroaches and call-centres, its 36,000,004 gods, slums, shopping malls, and crippling traffic jams, Balram learns of a new morality at the heart of a new India. Driven by desire to better himself, he comes to see how the Tiger might escape his cage ... through murder.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 321
 Edition: Open Market
 Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 01 Oct 2008
ISBN 10: 1848870426
ISBN 13: 9781848870420
Prizes: Winner of Galaxy British Book Awards: Borders Author of the Year 2009 and Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008. Shortlisted for Independent Booksellers' Week Book of the Year Award: Adults' Book of the Year 2009 and Heathrow Travel Product Award: Travel Read, Fiction 2009 and John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize 2008.

Media Reviews
[A] blazingly savage and brilliant first novel... Not a single detail in this novel rings false or feels confected. The White Tiger is an excoriating piece of work, stripping away the veneer of 'India Rising'... That it also manages to be suffused with mordant wit, modulating to clear-eyed pathos, means Adiga is going places as a writer. -- Neel Mukherjee * Sunday Telegraph *
Extraordinary and brilliant... Adiga is a real writer - that is to say, someone who forges an original voice and vision... The voice of Halwai - witty, pithy, ultimately psychopathic...[is] remarkable. -- Adam Lively * Sunday Times *
Author Bio
Aravind Adiga was born in Madras in 1974. He studied at Columbia and Oxford Universities. A former correspondent in India for Time magazine, his articles have also appeared in publications like the Financial Times, the Independent, and the Sunday Times. He lives in Mumbai. The White Tiger is his first novel.