The white tiger - Aravind Asia

MEET BALRAM HALWAI, THE 'WHITE TIGER:

SERVANT, PHILOSOPHER, ENTREPRENEUR, MURDERER...

'Dazzling... With The White Tiger, Adiga sets out to show us a part of [India] that we hear about infrequently: its underbelly... Welcome...to an India where Microsoft call-centre workers tread the same pavement as beggars who burn street rubbish for warmth... It's a thrilling ride...' David Mattin, Independent on Sunday

[An) extraordinary and brilliant first novel... At first, this novel seems like a straightforward pulled-up-by-your-bootstraps tale, albeit given a dazzling twist by the narrator's sharp and satirical eye for the realities of life for India's poor... But as the narrative draws the reader further in, and darkens, it becomes clear that Adiga is playing a bigger game...' Adam Lively, Sunday Times

Blazingly savage and brilliant... What Adiga lifts the lid on is also inexorably true: not a single detail in this novel rings false or feels confected. The White Tiger is an excoriating piece of work [that] also manages to be suffused with mordant wit, modulating to clear-eyed pathos' Neel Mukherjee, Sunday Telegraph