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. It was first published in 2008 and won the 40th Man Booker Prize in the same year. He is the author of the novels Amnesty Selection Day, now a series on. The White Tiger is the debut novel by Indian author Aravind Adiga. And with a charisma as undeniable as it is unexpected, Balram teaches us that religion create virtue, 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.Amoral, irreverent, deeply endearing, and utterly contemporary, this novel is an international sensation-and a startling, provocative debut. Aravind Adiga was born in India in 1974 and attended Columbia and Oxford universities. Over the course of seven nights, 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. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBalram Halwai is a complicated man. Free Essay: Text 1, an extract from the novel The White Tiger (Atlantic Books, 2008) by Aravind Adiga, discusses the phenomenon of poverty in India and.
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