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The White Tiger

Aravind Adiga

Hardcover | Pages: 276 pages

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Title	:	The White Tiger
Author	:	Aravind Adiga
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 276 pages
Published	:	2008 by Free Press
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. India. Contemporary. Asian Literature. Indian Literature. Novels. Literature. Asia

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Introducing a major literary talent, The White Tiger offers a story of coruscating wit, blistering suspense, and questionable morality, told by the most volatile, captivating, and utterly inimitable narrator that this millennium has yet seen.

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 us 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.

Born in the dark heart of India, Balram gets a break when he is hired as a driver for his village's wealthiest man, two house Pomeranians (Puddles and Cuddles), and the rich man's (very unlucky) son. From behind the wheel of their Honda City car, Balram's new world is a revelation. While his peers flip through the pages of Murder Weekly ("Love -- Rape -- Revenge!"), barter for girls, drink liquor (Thunderbolt), and perpetuate the Great Rooster Coop of Indian society, Balram watches his employers bribe foreign ministers for tax breaks, barter for girls, drink liquor (single-malt whiskey), and play their own role in the Rooster Coop. Balram learns how to siphon gas, deal with corrupt mechanics, and refill and resell Johnnie Walker Black Label bottles (all but one). He also finds a way out of the Coop that no one else inside it can perceive.

Balram's eyes penetrate India as few outsiders can: the cockroaches and the call centers; the prostitutes and the worshippers; the ancient and Internet cultures; the water buffalo and, trapped in so many kinds of cages that escape is (almost) impossible, the white tiger. And with a charisma as undeniable as it is unexpected, Balram teaches us that religion doesn't create virtue, and money doesn't solve every problem -- but decency can still be found in a corrupt world, and you can get what you want out of life if you eavesdrop on the right conversations.

The White Tiger recalls The Death of Vishnu and Bangkok 8 in ambition, scope, and 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.

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Original Title:	The White Tiger
ISBN:	1416562591 (ISBN13: 9781416562597)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Balram Halwai, Ashok, Kishan, Kusum, Stork
Setting:	Laxmangarh(India) Bihar(India) New Delhi(India)
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize (2008), John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Nominee (2008), PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize Nominee (2009), Galaxy British Book Awards for Author of the Year (0), Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize Nominee (2008)

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Best contemporary novel I've read this year. Antidote for the pastel lyricism of most mainstream novels coming out of India and a wonderful social satire with savage bit. Kind of like Terry Southern's best work if he hadn't been all weeded up and goofy. An image from it that sticks with me is how Ghandi's image gets appropriated by the current Indian bureaucracy. Whenever the narrator encounters the hanging Ghandi portrait he sees it as a symbol of "bribes work here, corruption at work".

This was a great, darkly humorous book a friend recommended to me stating that it was her favourite book of 2012. I can definitely see why. In this novel we find Balram Halwai, a sweetmaker from a small Indian village. He is from a low caste and finds a job working as a servant/driver to a rich Indian man. Halwai eventually escapes from his caste in a very unconventional way; by killing his boss. He then narrates his actions to the Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao, whom he admires greatly. This book

Well the stories of murderers and psychopaths are generally like cakes to most of us(and i am no exception). I either love such protagonists or hate them whole-heartedly. Coming to Balaram, the situation is different. I had never felt anything for him even after reading 300 pages. I didnt even hate him and I was completely indifferent towards him mainly because I felt that his character is artificial and inconsistent. Every time I read a cynical work or a satire I feel that I have become a bit

I have just this minute finished this book and I can already tell that it will be one of those books that I will think about often. It's not a book whose plot I can easily explain, or a book that I can easily fit into a particular genre on my shelves, but my God did it pack a powerful punch. I have hardly been able to put it down between sittings.The books is narrated via a letter from Balram Halwai, a slum-dweller-turned-driver-turned-murderer-turned-entrepreneur, to the Chinese President



Why would a book like this win any award whatsoever? Sigh...

I quite enjoyed the book. I was engaged cover-to-cover; it opened my eyes to much of the Indian culture, including paan chewing, Rickshaw pulling, and the closeness of extended families. It even gave me a brief visual tour of Delhi, where most of the story happened. The book particularly portrayed the darker side of the booming India from the perspective of socially and economically disadvantaged population. I naturally would give more credence to the local author, but 10 years have passed since