Book description
Balram Halwai is the White Tiger - the smartest boy in his village.
His family is too poor for him to afford for him to finish school and
he has to work in a teashop, breaking coals and wiping tables. But
Balram gets his break when a rich man hires him as a chauffeur, and
takes him to live in Delhi. The city is a revelation. As he drives his
master to shopping malls and call centres, Balram becomes increasingly
aware of immense wealth and opportunity all around him, while knowing
that he will never be able to gain access to that world. As Balram
broods over his situation, he realizes that there is only one way he
can become part of this glamorous new India - by murdering his master.
The White Tiger presents a raw and unromanticised India, both
thrilling and shocking - from the desperate, almost lawless villages
along the Ganges, to the booming Wild South of Bangalore and its
technology and outsourcing centres. The first-person confession of a
murderer, The White Tiger is as compelling for its subject matter as
for the voice of its narrator - amoral, cynical, unrepentant, yet
deeply endearing.
