The White Tiger: A Novel by Aravind Adiga
Language: English | Publisher: Free Press | Publication Date: October 14, 2008 | Print Length: 304 pages | ISBN-10: 9781416562603 | ISBN-13: 978-1416562603
Winner of the Booker Prize. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE.
This is the authentic voice of the Third World, like you’ve never heard it before.
“This is the authentic voice of the Third World, like you’ve never heard it before.” —John Burdett, author of Bangkok 8
The debut novel from the author of Amnesty and Selection Day, Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger is a darkly comic and unflinching look at modern India’s caste system, poverty, corruption, and ambition.
At the heart of the novel is Balram Halwai, the so-called “white tiger”—a rare creature who rises against the odds. Born in a poor Indian village, Balram becomes a driver for a wealthy family in Delhi before reinventing himself as a self-made Bangalore entrepreneur. As he recounts his journey in a letter to the visiting president of China, Balram exposes the contradictions of Indian society, where deep-rooted traditions of servitude and inequality collide with the promise of global business and outsourcing.
Wickedly funny, brutally honest, and deeply provocative,