About the Book - The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

The White Tiger is a compelling first novel about the new India that is growing roots all around us,The White Tiger is an unexpected journey into a new India. Aravind Adiga is a talent to watch.' Mohsin Hamid, Booker-shortlisted author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist 'In the grand illusions of a and risingand India, Aravind Adiga has found a subject Gogol might have envied. 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. Narrated by Balram, a self-styled andquot;entrepreneurandquot; 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. Balram himself is an enticing figure, whose reasons for murder become completely understandable by the end, but even more impressive is the nitty-gritty of Indian life that Adiga unearths: the corruption, the class system, the sheer petty viciousness. The Indian tourist board won't be pleased, but you'll read it in a trice and find yourself gripped.
 
About Aravind Adiga

ARAVIND ADIGA was born in Madras, India, in 1974.

• He completed his schooling in India and Australia.
• He graduated from Columbia University in New York with a B.A. in English literature.
• After his B.A., he went on a scholarship from Columbia to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he received his M.Phil. in English literature.
• He went into journalism in 2000 through an internship at the Washington, D.C. bureau of the Financial Times.
• His review of previous Booker Prize winner Peter Carey's book, Oscar and Lucinda, appeared in The Second Circle, an online literary review.
• In 2003, he returned to India as a correspondent for Time magazine ,where he remained a South Asia correspondent for three years before going freelance.
• During his freelance period, he wrote The White Tiger.
• He currently lives in Mumbai, India

He is the fourth Indian-born author to win the Booker Prize since it was launched in 1969, joining Kiran Desai, Arundhati Roy and Salman Rushdie. He is also the second youngest winner in the prize’s 40-year history
 
Facts About Aravind Adiga

Date of birth: 1974
Place of birth: Madras (now Chennai), India
Current Home: Mumbai, India
Education: India, Australia, USA (Columbia Univ. NYC), UK (Oxford Univ.)
Similar Authors: Sujit Saraf, Indra Sinha, Gregory David Roberts, Manil Suri
 
Publishers Review

The Sunday Times of London called his first novel, The White Tiger, 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.”