The White Tiger By Arvind Adiga

The White Tiger, a debut novel by Arvind Adiga, portrays the dark humor from Indias class conflict and corruption through the eyes of Balram Halwai, a rustic village boy. It is the story of a village boy embarking upon a journey of philosophy, deceit, murder and an unexpected fulfillment of a camouflaged ambition.

Summary of The White Tiger

Lurking out of the shabby dark corners of a bourgeois rural village the darkness, the story of a serf, philosopher, murderer and entrepreneur is narrated under the pervaded light of a bizarre chandelier. Written in seven receding nights by Balram Halwai, the protagonist; the letters are reverted to a Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in which Balram narrates a poignant, spell bound autobiography of his plight to overcome the then pervert India which he calls the autobiography of a half-baked Indian. A transfixing story, imbibing the transitional phase as in typical bildungsroman focuses on the formative years of Balram, when out of the blue he is ambushed out of his lurid life into the life as a driver for his villages wealthiest man to drive his somewhat catastrophic son Ashok. The transition overshadows as expected when Balram behind the wheel of the Honda City car channels himself with the new world that unfolds before him while his nostalgic friends keep on satiating their tiny mundane minds with girls, liquor, or punch in the Great Rooster Coop or simply flaunt their time with the Murder Weekly. Meager is hoped from the quick witted and half mocked Balram, when he watches over his sophisticated employers exacted deeper and deeper into corruption while either bribing the Foreign minister or simply satiating their thirst for liquor and women. The book familiarizes the rustic plight of a man rooted in the dark valleys of a village to the enticing, sophistication of a city and a sudden appalling revelation of an intended murder mentioned in the letter. Balrams spectacular journey under the limelight of the then political unrest renders an entertaining and embellished plot to keep the readers partial. Balrams brutal endeavor to gain freedom and a venerable position in the society renders him a position wholly disparate from his early boyhood years. The book, grappling with globalization, individualism, freedom, immoral corruption and social class, persists with undue artifact of storytelling. An intriguing piece of fiction, The White Tiger, is a novel written by the recent Indian author Arvind Adiga and was published in 2008. Being the authors debut novel, the book familiarizes the concept of class struggle in a wholly globalized world. The White Tiger greatly corroborated the author to bag the 40th Man Booker Prize in 2008. Sold in sixteen countries, the book became a huge hit across the country and all over the sixteen countries. Propelled by the achievement, 200,000 copies of the book were sold.

About Arvind Adiga

Arvind Adiga, an Indian writer and journalist, created his debut masterpiece fiction, The White Tiger and won the Man Booker Prize, 2008. Apart from The White Tiger, Arvind Adiga also wrote Between The Assassinations, which was published in India in 2008 and the United States and the United Kingdom and his third book Last Man in Tower was published in the UK in 2011 Arvind Adiga graduated as salutatorian from the Columbia University, New York. He embarked upon his career as a financial journalist for Financial Times. Thereafter he was hired by TIME and after three years; he turned into a freelance writer and that is when he wrote The White Tiger.

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