The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008 WINNER OF THE GALAXY BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 'AUTHOR OF THE YEAR' 2009 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.
[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 *
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 *
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781848870420 |
| ISBN 10 | 1848870426 |
| Title | The White Tiger |
| Author | Aravind Adiga |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Atlantic Books |
| Year published | 2008-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Prizes | Winner of Galaxy British Book Awards: Borders Author of the Year 2009, Winner of Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008, Short-listed for Independent Booksellers' Week Book of the Year Award: Adults' Book of the Year 2009, Short-listed for Heathrow Travel Product Award: Travel Read, Fiction 2009, Short-listed for John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize 2008 |
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