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- Product code: 426496
ISBN13: 9781843547228,
336 pages, paperback
Published by Atlantic Books, 2009
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Description of The White Tiger
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Meet Balram Halwai, the 'White Tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur and murderer. Balram, the White Tiger, was born in a backwater village on the River Ganges, the son of a rickshaw-puller. He works in a teashop, crushing coal and wiping tables, but nurses a dream of escape. When he learns that a rich village landlord needs a chauffeur, he takes his opportunity, and is soon on his way to Delhi behind the wheel of a Honda. Amid the cockroaches and call-centres, the 36,000,004 gods, the slums, the shopping malls, and the crippling traffic jams, Balram learns of a new morality at the heart of a new India. Driven by desire to better himself, he comes to see how the Tiger might escape his cage...
Prizes: Winner of Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008 and Galaxy British Book Awards: Borders Author of the Year 2009. Shortlisted for John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize 2008 and Heathrow Travel Product Award: Travel Read, Fiction 2009 and Independent Booksellers' Book of the Year Award: Adults 2009.
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About Aravind Adiga |
Aravind Adiga was born in Madras in 1974 and was raised in Australia. He studied at Columbia and Oxford Universities. A former correspondent in India for Time magazine, his articles have also appeared in publications like the Financial Times, the Independent, and the Sunday Times. He lives in Mumbai. The White Tiger is his first novel.
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