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Dark humor exposes India's societal divides.

"The White Tiger" might surprise you with its raw, unfiltered dive into India's class struggles. Aravind Adiga doesn't sugarcoat his homeland's issues, and that honest storytelling could grip you from start to finish. Balram’s compelling narrative, from a life of servitude to a self-made entrepreneur, offers a perspective shift that stays with you long after you've turned the last page. If you enjoy stories that challenge the status quo with wit and suspense, this book is likely to be a memorable read.

  • Booker Prize (2008)
  • John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Nominee (2008)
  • PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize Nominee (2009)
  • Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize Nominee (2008)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

White Tiger

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ISBN: 9788172237455
Authors: Aravind Adiga
Date of Publication: 2008-01-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Topics: Asian Literature, Literature, Crime
Goodreads rating: 3.77
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The White Tiger is a compelling first novel about the new India that is growing roots all around us, in unexpected and often ominous ways. 'Compelling, angry, and darkly humorous, The White Tiger is an unexpected journey into a new India. Aravind Adiga is a talent to watch.' Mohsin Hamid, Booker-shortlisted author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist 'In the grand illusions of a "rising" India, Aravind Adiga has found a subject Gogol might have envied. With remorselessly and delightfully mordant wit The White Tiger anatomises the fantastic cravings of the rich; it evokes, too, with startling accuracy and tenderness, the no less desperate struggles of the deprived.' Pankaj Mishra 'Unlike almost any other Indian novel you might have read in recent years, this page-turner offers a completely bald, angry, unadorned portrait of the country as seen from the bottom of the heap; there's not a sniff of saffron or a swirl of sari anywhere. Narrated by Balram, a self-styled "entrepreneur" who has murdered his employer, the book follows his progress from child labourer, via humiliation as a servant and driver, to a mysterious new life in Bangalore. Balram himself is an enticing figure, whose reasons for murder become completely understandable by the end, but even more impressive is the nitty-gritty of Indian life
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Dark humor exposes India's societal divides.

"The White Tiger" might surprise you with its raw, unfiltered dive into India's class struggles. Aravind Adiga doesn't sugarcoat his homeland's issues, and that honest storytelling could grip you from start to finish. Balram’s compelling narrative, from a life of servitude to a self-made entrepreneur, offers a perspective shift that stays with you long after you've turned the last page. If you enjoy stories that challenge the status quo with wit and suspense, this book is likely to be a memorable read.

  • Booker Prize (2008)
  • John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Nominee (2008)
  • PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize Nominee (2009)
  • Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize Nominee (2008)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.