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The White Tiger is a novel by Indian author Aravind Adiga. It was published in 2008 and won the 40th Booker Prize the same year. [1] The novel provides a darkly humorous perspective of India's class struggle in a globalized world as told through a retrospective narration from Balram Halwai, a village boy.
Apr 22, 2008 · Introducing a major literary talent, The White Tiger offers a story of coruscating wit, blistering suspense, and questionable morality, told by the most volatile, captivating, and utterly inimitable narrator that this millennium has yet seen. Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur.
Sign up for free Details. The stunning Booker Prize–winning novel from the author of Amnesty and Selection Day that critics have likened to Richard Wright’s Native Son, The White Tiger follows a darkly comic Bangalore driver through the poverty and corruption of modern India’s caste society.
- Aravind Adiga
May 15, 2021 · The White Tiger By Arvind Adiga. The novel provides a darkly humorous perspective of India 's class struggle in a globalized world as told through a retrospective narration from Balram Halwai, a village boy.
The White Tiger is the story of Balram Halwai ’s life as a self-declared “self-made entrepreneur”: a rickshaw driver’s son who skillfully climbs India’s social ladder to become a chauffer and later a successful businessman.
The White Tiger, Adiga’s debut novel, garnered voluminous praise on publication and earned Adiga, a former Time magazine correspondent then 34 years old, the distinction of being among the youngest authors ever to win the Man Booker Prize.
Oct 14, 2008 · The stunning Booker Prize–winning novel from the author of Amnesty and Selection Day that critics have likened to Richard Wright’s Native Son, The White Tiger follows a darkly comic Bangalore driver through the poverty and corruption of modern India’s caste society.
