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| Title | : | The White Tiger |
| Author | : | Aravind Adiga |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Page | : | 321 pages |
| ISBN | : | 8172237456 |
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 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 impressive is the nitty gritty of Indian life that Adiga unearths the corruption, the class system, the sheer petty viciousness The Indian tourist board won t be pleased, but you ll read it in a trice and find yourself gripped Sunday Times, London
about Author
Aravind Adiga was born in 1974 in Madras now called Chennai , and grew up in Mangalore in the south of India He was educated at Columbia University in New York and Magdalen College, Oxford His articles have appeared in publications such as the New Yorker, the Sunday Times, the Financial Times, and the Times of India His debut novel, The White Tiger, won the Man Booker Prize for fiction in 2008 Aravind Adiga was born in 1974 in Madras now called Chennai , and grew up in Mangalore in the south of India He was educated at Columbia University in New York and Magdalen College, Oxford His articles have appeared in publications such as the New Yorker, the Sunday Times, the Financial Times, and the Times of India His debut novel, The White Tiger, won the Man Booker Prize for fiction in 2008 Its release was followed by a collection of short stories in the book titled Between the Assassinations His second novel, Last Man in the Tower, was published in 2011 His newest novel, Selection Day, was published in 2016 
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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,
321 pagesAravind Adiga
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