The White Tiger Aravind Adiga

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WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008

'[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

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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.

The White Tiger Reviews

[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 *

About Aravind Adiga

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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GOR001317169

ISBN 13

9781848870420

ISBN 10

1848870426

Title

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

Author

Aravind Adiga

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Atlantic Books

Year published

20081001

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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