Aravind Adiga won the Booker Prize in 2008 for writing the book ‘The White Tiger‘.
I was always curious to know what was in it, and how this first-time
fiction won the prestigious award. Once I started reading the book, I
discovered it was un-putdownable! Written in an angry rustic tone with a
lot of dark humour and satire, the author convincingly tells the tale
of ‘The White Tiger’, an entrepreneur in the IT hub of Bangalore in a
most unimaginably creative manner- the entrepreneur speaks in the first
person and narrates his story in letters written every night addressed
to none other than- Wen Jiabao- the then Premier of China! The interesting title, ‘The White Tiger‘, literally means that rare ‘creature born once in a generation‘-a
name given to the street-smart protagonist when he answered all
questions rightly, posed to him, by the school inspector in a remote
village of Bihar.
