The White Tiger by Aravind AdigaMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
The White Tiger: A Novel, by Aravind Adiga, 2008
Booker Prize winner of 2008, adapted to screen in 2021, The White Tiger is the story of Balram's life as a self-declared "self-made entrepreneur." He is a rickshaw driver's son who skillfully climbs India's social ladder to become a chauffeur, then later a successful businessman.
The writing feels natural that the book zips along, exhilaratingly satirical with a stinging bite, just pissed-off enough. Overall, primarily amusing, darkly comic, and a wicked criticizing of India's social fabric.
I give it 3 out 5 stars.
From the publisher:
Introducing a major literary talent, The White Tiger offers a story of coruscating wit, blistering suspense, and questionable morality, told by the most volatile, captivating, and utterly inimitable narrator that this millennium has yet seen. Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, 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. Born in the dark heart of India, Balram gets a break when he is hired as a driver for his village's wealthiest man, two house Pomeranians (Puddles and Cuddles), and the rich man's (very unlucky) son. From behind the wheel of their Honda City ...
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