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The White Tiger

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Aravind Adiga

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Our Assessment:

B- : decent writing and ideas, but doesn't work nearly as well as it should

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  Review Consensus:

  Generally fairly positive, and a few very enthusiastic

  From the Reviews:

• "As Balram�s education expands, he grows more corrupt. Yet the reader�s sympathy for the former teaboy never flags. In creating a character who is both witty and psychopathic, Mr Adiga has produced a hero almost as memorable as Pip, proving himself the Charles Dickens of the call-centre generation." - The Economist
  
  
• "Balram�s violent bid for freedom is shocking. What, we�re left to ask, does it make him -- just another thug in India�s urban jungle or a revolutionary and idealist ? It�s a sign of this book�s quality, as well as of its moral seriousness, that it keeps you guessing to the final page and beyo
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December 23,

They remain slaves because they can’t see what is beautiful in this world. That’s the truest thing anyone said…Even as a boy I could see what was beautiful in the world: I was destined not to stay a slave.

The White Tiger is a grim, biting, unsubtle look at 21st Century India, stuck in the mire of a corrupt, cynical past, and debauching and slaughtering its way into a corrupt and cynical future, told by a working class fellow who, through ambition, intelligence, and a willingness to be utterly ruthless is clawing his way up the rungs of the Indian class ladder. It paints a bleak picture, offering little optimism for an India that will be any cleaner, fairer or more humane than the India it is replacing.


Aravind Adiga - image from The Guardian

While the subject matter is dark, the novel is fast-paced and engaging, drawing the reader in to the cares and concerns of the servant class. The narrator, Balran, may not be the most well written character in literature, but he will do as a vehicle for showing an India in transition from one form of bad to another.

Adiga paints a sharp line between Darkness and Light. The first is represented by rivers, particularly the Ganges, fouled with filth of diverse sorts, while the ocean is considered

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The White Tiger ( film)

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