The White Tiger

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 '[An] extraordinary and brilliant first novel... Adiga is a real writer - that is to say, someone who forges an original voice and vision.' Sunday Times 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.

Blazingly savage and brilliant * Sunday Telegraph *
A masterpiece * The Times *
Dazzling.. With The White Tiger, Adiga sets out to show us a part of [India] that we hear about infrequently: its underbelly... [Balram's voice is] brimming with idiosyncrasy, sarcastic, cunning. * Independent on Sunday *
Adiga's portrait of the Indian capital is very funny but unmistakably angry... Keeps you guessing to the final page and beyond. * Financial Times *

Aravind Adiga was born in Madras in 1974. He studied at Columbia and Oxford Universities. A former India correspondent 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	9781843547228
ISBN 10	1843547228
Title	The White Tiger
Author	Aravind Adiga
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Atlantic Books
Year published	2009-03-01
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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