The White Tiger
Booker Prize · 2008 · Winner
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Booker Prize | 2008 | Winner |
About This Book
Balram Halwai is born into poverty in the 'Darkness' of rural India. Through guile, talent, and a willingness to murder his own employer, he escapes to become a successful entrepreneur in Bangalore. Told as a series of letters to the Chinese premier, The White Tiger is a darkly comic portrait of the brutal social realities of contemporary India.
About the Author
Aravind AdigaIndian
Aravind Adiga was born on 23 October 1974 in Madras (now Chennai), India, and grew up in Mangalore, Karnataka. He studied English literature at Columbia University (graduating as salutatorian in 1997) and at Magdalen College, Oxford. He began his career in journalism, working for Time magazine as its South Asia correspondent in New Delhi before becoming a freelance writer. Read more →
