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Praise for The White Tiger

21 March 2023

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Winner of the Man Booker Prize New York Times Bestseller

"Compelling, angry, and darkly humorous, The White Tiger is an unexpected journey into a new India. Aravind Adiga is a talent to watch."

-Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist

"Darkly comic... Balram's appealingly sardonic voice and acute

observations of the social order are both winning and unsettling."

-The New Yorker

"An exhilarating, side-splitting account of India today, as well as an eloquent howl at her many injustices. Adiga enters the literary scene resplendent in battle dress and ready to conquer. Let us bow to him."

-Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan and The Russian Debutante's Handbook

"Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger is one of the most powerful books I've read in decades. No hyperbole. This debut novel from an Indi- an journalist living in Mumbai hit me like a kick to the head-the same effect Richard Wright's Native Son and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man had."

-USA Today

"Electrifying"

"The perfect antidote to lyrical India."

-The Economic Times (India)

-Publishers Weekly

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Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2008 Meet Balram Halwai, the 'white tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer… Born in a village in the dark heart of India, the son of a rickshaw puller, Balram is taken out of school and put to work in a teashop. As he crushes coal and wipes tables, he nurses a dream of escape. His big chance comes when a rich landlord hires him as a chauffeur for his son, daughter-in-law, and their two Pomeranian dogs. From behind the wheels of a Honda, Balram sees Delhi and begins to see how the Tiger might escape his cage. For surely any successful man must spill a little blood on his way to the top? The White Tiger is a tale of two Indias. Balram's journey from the darkness of village life to the light of entrepreneurial success is utterly amoral, brilliantly irreverent, deeply endearing and altogether unforgettable.