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. 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. 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. Read more increasingly aware of immense wealth and opportunity all around him, while knowing that he will never be able to gain access to that world. Whereas the success of Anne Enrights The Gathering smacked of compromise, horse trading and each judges third choice winning through, The White Tiger is a very different kind of animal. As he drives his master to shopping malls and call centres, Balram becomes. But Balram gets his break when a rich man hires him as a chauffeur, and takes him to live in Delhi. 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. WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008 Balram Halwai is the White Tiger - the smartest boy in his village.
Adiga is a real writer - that is to say, someone who forges an original voice and vision.' Sunday Times Num Pages: 336 pages.
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008 WINNER OF THE GALAXY BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 'AUTHOR OF THE YEAR' 2009 ' extraordinary and brilliant first novel. Description for The White Tiger Paperback.
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