The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
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The White Tiger
A Novel

Author: Aravind Adiga

Narrator: John Lee

Unabridged: 8 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/06/2008


Synopsis

No saris. No scents. No spices. No music. No lyricism. No illusions.

This is India now.

Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life—having nothing but his own wits to help him along. Born in a village in the dark heart of India, Balram gets a break when he is hired as a driver for a wealthy man, two Pomeranians (Puddles and Cuddles), and the rich man's (very unlucky) son.

Through Balram's eyes, we see India as we've never seen it before: the cockroaches and the call centers, the prostitutes and the worshippers, the water buffalo and, trapped in so many kinds of cages that escape is (almost) impossible, the white tiger. And with a charisma as undeniable as it is unexpected, he teaches us that religion doesn't create morality and money doesn't solve every problem—but decency can still be found in a corrupt world, and you can get what you want out of life if you eavesdrop on the right conversations.

About Aravind Adiga

Aravind Adiga was born in India in 1974 and raised partly in Australia. He attended Columbia and Oxford Universities. A former correspondent for Time magazine, he has also been published in the Financial Times. He lives in Mumbai, India.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nandakishore on January 21, 2021

This review contains what may be spoilers. Even though I do not think it will spoil your reading experience, I am putting the warning here because one reader pointed it out. -------------------------------------- Before I begin my review, a statutory warning to all my patriotic Indian brothers and sis......more

Goodreads review by Dr. Appu on August 27, 2022

No country and human being in this world are perfect. There are negatives in every country and its people, and it should be criticized. I am happy that the author, who happens to be an Indian by birth, was brave enough to criticize some of these in this book. But there is a big difference between cr......more

Goodreads review by Will on December 23, 2021

They remain slaves because they can’t see what is beautiful in this world. That’s the truest thing anyone said…Even as a boy I could see what was beautiful in the world: I was destined not to stay a slave.The White Tiger is a grim, biting, unsubtle look at 21st Century India, stuck in the mire o......more

Goodreads review by Paul on April 09, 2009

The perfect companion piece to Slumdog Millionaire, and if you didn't like that movie, you won't like this book for the same reasons. It's a no-nonsense bulldozing mordant splenetic jackhammer of a story written as a tough slangy 300 page fast-reading monologue. It's a novel of information, not art.......more

Goodreads review by Always on June 12, 2017

I'm not sure what I expected going into this book but it wasn't really this. The book was very tongue in cheek and I could completely sympathize with our narrator even at the end. The idealistic part of me was a little horrified and upset by a lot of it but I think it's pretty realistic and really m......more