The white tiger novel written by Indian author Arvind Adiga. Novel published in 2008. The novel won the 40th Man Booker Prize in the same year(2008).
#About the author
Aravind Adiga was born in India in 1974. educated in India and Australia. He has worked as a journalist, first as a financial correpsondent in New York, then returning to India in 2003 to work as a correspondent for TIME magazine. His debut novel, The White Tiger, was published in 2008 and won the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. His second novel is Between the Assassinations 2009, which charts the lives of the residents of an Indian town over a seven-year period between the assassinations of Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv. The author is also praised for his ability to delve the darkest recesses of human nature and present the grim side of an individual’s personality in an equally grim universe. His latest work is Last Man in Tower 2011. 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize (South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book).
#plot and summary
Protagonist of the novel is Balram Halwai. The whole story narrated on this character. Adiga do a dark humarich satire on the Indian people. Balram Halwai is sweet maker and he belongs to the Laksman Nagar a small town. He come from a poor family. He transcended his humble beginnings to become a successful entrepreneur. He talk about the his to name "munna". His name munna given by his school teacher. He say that his family have a no time for his name so every one call him munna so his name is munna. Balram’s father died from tuberculosis in a decrepit village hospital. After his father's death kishan got married and moved to Dhanbad and Balram came with him. Balram start work as a taxi driver.
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