The White Tiger
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Aravind Adiga
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The stunning Booker Prize–winning novel from the author of Amnesty and Selection Day that critics have likened to Richard Wright’s Native Son, The White Tiger follows a darkly comic Bangalore driver through the poverty and corruption of modern India’s caste society. “This is the authentic voice of the Third World, like you've never heard it before” (John Burdett, Bangkok 8).The white tiger of this novel is Balram Halwai, a poor Indian villager whose great ambition leads him to the zenith of Indian business culture, the world of the Bangalore entrepreneur. On the occasion of the president of China’s impending trip to Bangalore, Balram writes a letter to him describing his transformation and his experience as driver and servant to a wealthy Indian family, which he thinks exemplifies the contradictions and complications of Indian society. Recalling The Death of Vishnu and Bangkok 8 in ambition, scope, The White Tiger is narrative genius with a mischief and personality all its own. Amoral, irreverent, deeply endearing, and utterly contemporary, this novel is an international publishing sensation—and a startling, provocative debut.
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Author
Aravind Adiga
Pages
304
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2008-04-22
ISBN
1416562737 9781416562733
Ratings
Google: 5
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"Loved this!"
M. A. Daniels
"Startling peek into the lives of the "under-class" in big city India."
Jay Werth
"I can't believe this won the Booker. I am reading some of the other books that made the shortlist for 2008 and they are far more deserving, their language more sophisticated and the plots much more intriguing."
Kelly Turner
"This is the first audiobook I "listened" to and it was a whole new experience.<br/><br/>First of all, if you are not used to listening to audiobooks, it might take some practice to focus on it. You can't multi task while listening to it like you do with music otherwise you will realize after a while you haven't grasped anything. I either sat completely still doing nothing else or walked while listening to it.<br/><br/>Coming to the content, its an interesting story made more amusing by the narration in the audio book. It starts with a Bangalore based entrepreneur writing a letter to the chinese premier Jiabao who was supposed to visit India soon.<br/><br/>He wants to enlighten Jiabao with his knowledge about India and Indians by narrating his own life story. It is a story of the poor and the rich, of castes, of struggles, of servitude, of oppression and various other social issues that plague the Indian society even today.<br/><br/>He also makes a point about escaping this endless cycle of despair and of succeeding by overcoming all the odds and taking extreme steps. <br/><br/>It is a unique style of narration which kept me interested right till the end. A good read!!"
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