The White Tiger - by Aravind Adiga (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life--having nothing but his own wits to help him along.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE</b> <p/><b>The stunning Booker Prize-winning novel from the author of <i>Amnesty</i> and <i>Selection Day</i> that critics have likened to Richard Wright's <i>Native</i> <i>Son</i>, <i>The White Tiger</i> 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, <i>Bangkok 8</i>).</b> <p/>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. <p/>Recalling The Death of Vishnu and Bangkok 8 in ambition, scope, <i>The White Tiger</i> 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Adiga's training as a journalist lends the immediacy of breaking news to his writing, but it is his richly detailed storytelling that will captivate his audience...<i>The White Tiger</i> echoes masterpieces of resistance and oppression (both <i>The Jungle</i> and <i>Native Son</i> come to mind) [and] contains passages of startling beauty...A book that carefully balances fable and pure observation. - Lee Thomas, <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i><br><br>An exhilarating, side-splitting account of India today, as well as an eloquent howl at her many injustices. Adiga enters the literary scene resplendent in battle dress and ready to conquer. Let us bow to him. -- Gary Shteyngart, author of <i>Absurdistan</i> and <i>The Russian Debutante's Handbook</i><br><br>Aravind Adiga's <i>The White Tiger</i> is one of the most powerful books I've read in decades. No hyperbole. This debut novel from an Indian journalist living in Mumbai hit me like a kick to the head -- the same effect Richard Wright's <i>Native Son</i> and Ralph Ellison's <i>Invisible Man</i> had. - <i>USA Today</i><br><br>Compelling, angry, and darkly humorous, <i>The White Tiger</i> is an unexpected journey into a new India. Aravind Adiga is a talent to watch. -- Mohsin Hamid, author of <i>The Reluctant Fundamentalist</i><br><br>Darkly comic...Balram's appealingly sardonic voice and acute observations of the social order are both winning and unsettling. - <i>The New Yorker</i><br><br>Extraordinary and brilliant... At first, this novel seems like a straightforward pulled-up-by-your-bootstraps tale, albeit given a dazzling twist by the narrator's sharp and satirical eye for the realities of life for India's poor... But as the narrative draws the reader further in, and darkens, it becomes clear that Adiga is playing a bigger game... Adiga is a real writer - that is to say, someone who forges an original voice and vision. There is the voice of Halwai - witty, pithy, ultimately psychopathic... Remarkable... I will not spoil the effect of this remarkable novel by giving away ... what form his act of blood-stained entrepreneurship takes. Suffice to say that I was reminded of a book that is totally different in tone and style, Richard Wright's Native Son, a tale of the murderous career of a black kid from the Chicago ghetto that awakened 1940s America to the reality of the racial divide. Whether The White Tiger will do the equivalent for today's India - we shall see. - Adam Lively, <i>The Sunday Times</i> (London)<br><br>Fierce and funny...A satire as sharp as it gets. - Michael Upchurch, <i>The Seattle Times</i><br><br>The perfect antidote to lyrical India. - <i>Publishers Weekly</i><br><br>There is a new Muse stalking global narrative: brown, angry, hilarious, half-educated, rustic-urban, iconoclastic, paan-spitting, word-smithing--and in the case of Aravind Adiga she hails from a town called Laxmangarh. This is the authentic voice of the Third World, like you've never heard it before. Adiga is a global Gorky, a modern Kipling who grew up, and grew up mad. The future of the novel lies here. - John Burdett, author of <i>Bangkok 8 </i><br><br>This fast-moving novel, set in India, is being sold as a corrective to the glib, dreamy exoticism Western readers often get...If these are the hands that built India, their grandkids really are going to kick America's ass...BUY IT. - <i>New York Magazine</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Aravind Adiga was born in India in 1974 and attended Columbia and Oxford universities. He is the author of the novels <i>Amnesty</i>; <i>Selection Day</i>, now a series on Netflix; <i>The White Tiger</i>, <i> </i>which won the Man Booker Prize;<i> </i>and the story collection <i>Between the Assassinations</i>. He lives in Mumbai, India
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