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BOOK OF THE WEEK – The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2008.   

BOOK OF THE WEEK – The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2008. Now a Netflix movie! Buy the book and read it before you watch the movie: The White Tiger follows a darkly comic Bangalore driver through the poverty and corruption of modern India’s caste society.... Meet Balram Halwai, the 'White Tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur... murderer. Balram was born in a backwater village on the River Ganges, the son of a rickshaw-puller. He works in a teashop, crushing coal and wiping tables, but nurses a dream of escape. When he learns that a rich village landlord needs a chauffeur, he takes his opportunity, and is soon on his way to Delhi at the wheel of a Honda. Amid cockroaches, call-centres, thirty-six-million gods, slums, shopping malls, and crippling traffic jams, Balram comes to see how the Tiger might slip the bars of his cage. Recalling The Death of Vishnu and Bangkok 8 in ambition, scope, The White Tiger is narrative genius with a mischief and personality all its own. Amoral, irreverent, deeply endearing, and utterly contemporary, this novel is an international publishing sensation—and a startling, provocative debut. #bookoftheweek #netflixadaptation #aravindadiga #readthebookbeforeyouseethemovie #booksarebetter #mustread #hkreaders #bookazinehk See more