The White Tiger
The White Tiger
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Summary
The iconic Booker Prize-winner: an unforgettable novel of corruption, murder and twisted morality in contemporary India, reissued in a stylish new livery as part of Atlantic's Cult Classics series.
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The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Here's a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life - possessive, even. You know more about him than his father and mother; they knew his foetus, but you know his corpse. Meet Balram Halwai, the 'White Tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur... murderer. Balram 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 at the wheel of a Honda. Amid cockroaches, call-centres, thirtysix-million gods, slums, shopping malls, and crippling traffic jams, Balram comes to see how the Tiger might slip the bars of his cage.
Blazingly savage and brilliant -- Sunday Telegraph
A masterpiece -- The Times
Dazzling -- Independent on Sunday
Suffused with mordant wit -- Neel Mukherjee
Adiga's portrait of the Indian capital is very funny but unmistakably angry.. Keeps you guessing to the final page and beyond. -- Financial Times
[An] extraordinary and brilliant first novel... Adiga is a real writer - that is to say, someone who forges an original voice and vision. -- Sunday Times
A masterpiece -- The Times
Dazzling -- Independent on Sunday
Suffused with mordant wit -- Neel Mukherjee
Adiga's portrait of the Indian capital is very funny but unmistakably angry.. Keeps you guessing to the final page and beyond. -- Financial Times
[An] extraordinary and brilliant first novel... Adiga is a real writer - that is to say, someone who forges an original voice and vision. -- Sunday Times
Aravind Adiga was born in Madras in 1974 and was India correspondent at Time magazine. The White Tiger, his debut novel, won the Man Booker Prize. Adiga has gone on to write Last Man in Tower and Between the Assassinations.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781786495013 |
| ISBN 10 | 1786495015 |
| Title | The White Tiger |
| Author | Aravind Adiga |
| Series | Atlantic Cult Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Atlantic Books |
| Year published | 2018-04-05 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |