![]() ![]() Still, by the accident of his birth it appears he’s sentenced to a near subsistence-level life in his native village, where raw sewage courses through the streets and the residents are at the mercy of venal landowners. The White Tiger is the story of Balram Halwai’s life as a self-declared “self-made entrepreneur”: a rickshaw driver’s son who skilfully climbs India’s social ladder to become a chauffeur and later a successful businessman.īalram Halwai is born into the grinding poverty of the portion of India he calls the “Darkness.” He’s a bright student, nicknamed the White Tiger for an animal that appears only once in a generation. It was first published in 2008 by Atlantic Books (UK) and won the 40th Man Booker Prize in the same year. ![]() The White Tiger is the debut novel by Indian author Aravind Adiga. ![]()
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