The White Tiger

Balram Halwai is the White Tiger - the smartest boy in his village. His family is too poor for him to afford for him to finish school and he has to work in a teashop, breaking coals and wiping tables. But Balram gets his break when a rich man hires him as a chauffeur, and takes him to live in Delhi. The city is a revelation. As he drives his master to shopping malls and call centres, Balram becomes increasingly aware of immense wealth and opportunity all around him, while knowing that he will never be able to gain access to that world. As Balram broods over his situation, he realizes that there is only one way he can become part of this glamorous new India - by murdering his master."The White Tiger" presents a raw and unromanticised India, both thrilling and shocking - from the desperate, almost lawless villages along the Ganges, to the booming Wild South of Bangalore and its technology and outsourcing centres. The first-person confession of a murderer, "The White Tiger" is as compelling for its subject matter as for the voice of its narrator - amoral, cynical, unrepentant, yet deeply endearing.

ISBN 1843547201   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9781843547204 (What's this?)   Pages 336 Publisher Atlantic Books   Published in London Imprint Atlantic Books   Height (mm) 210 Format Hardback   Width (mm) 148 Publication date 01 Mar 2008   Academic level General DEWEY 823.92

"'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 anatomizes the fantastic cravings of the rich; it evokes, too, with starting accuracy and tenderness, the no less desperate struggles of the deprived.' Pankaj Mishra"

The White Tiger is a book which a person cant stop reading. Balram Halwai is the narrator him self. He explains how badly he wanted to escape the cage of darkness, poverty, detestation, corruption, sickness, etc. . Not to be a servant was meant too much to Balram. The story of Balram from a village of darkness to the modern India is explained in fascinating details. This book has made me visit India again. Purav Upadhyay
Leicester, U.K. - Purav Upadhyay



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