![]() ![]() ![]() 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. 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. 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. ‘Compelling, angry, and darkly humorous, The White Tiger is an unexpected journey into a new India. 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. ![]() Please allow notification and avoid private mode for this feature to work. Picture Books, Activity Books and Early Learning.Economics, Finance, Business and Management. ![]()
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