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    The White Tiger: WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008

    By Aravind Adiga

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    ***NOMINATED FOR AN ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY***

    ***NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX PRODUCTION STARING PRIYANKA CHOPRA AND PRODUCED BY AVA DUVERNAY***

    'As angry, smart and dark as Parasite.' Standard
    'The anti-Slumdog Millionaire' Hollywood Reporter
    ___________

    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, thirty-six-million gods, slums, shopping malls, and crippling traffic jams, Balram comes to see how the Tiger might slip the bars of his cage.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAtlantic Books
    Release dateOct 1, 2008
    ISBN9781848870987
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    The White Tiger: WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008
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    Aravind Adiga

    Aravind Adiga was born in India in 1974 and attended Columbia and Oxford universities. He is the author of the novels Amnesty; Selection Day, now a series on Netflix; The White Tiger, which won the Man Booker Prize; and the story collection Between the Assassinations. He lives in Mumbai, India.

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    • 3/5
      Let me start by saying that the movie was a lot better. The movie is actually what imspired me to read the book. I was captivated by the story of a man overcoming his circumstances and casting off his shackles. I loved the determination and imagination of Balram and I also liked reading his perspective of the world.

      What I didn’t like... the fragmented way the story was written. I guess it makes sense that because Balram did not complete formal education he may have difficulty writing a formal letter or even staying on topic and maintaining a structure, so essentially these letters were just diarised memories. However the disjointed way in which he recounts his story was not the most palatable for me as a reader.

      Additionally while I appreciated the raw view of India, it really did feel like bashing for a lot of it. If I were Indian, Muslim or even of slighter sensibilities I may not have been able to make it through this entire book.