Novel: The White Tiger (Fiction, 2008)
Author: Arvind Adiga
Publisher: HarperCollins
Author: Arvind Adiga
Publisher: HarperCollins
The review is somewhat late (by 2 years, only!), but I wish to give some crisp review of whatever I read, then it could be a 50 yrs old writing. Yeah. Especially for those who didn’t read it.
- The White Tiger is first novel of Arvind Adiga and lucky guy won The Man Booker Prize, 2008, at first attempt
- The entire book is in the form of a letter to the Premier of People’s Republic of China, Wen Jiabao, who is scheduled to visit India and is keen to know about the development of Bangalore and the entrepreneurs there
- Story is of Balram Halwai alias Munna, the main character and narrator in the book
- Book is about Balram’s journey from a school boy to a tea stall worker to a driver to a murderer and to a entrepreneur. From Laxamangarh in Gaya Dist. to Delhi to Bangalore
- Enlightens us about the life and relationship of the dedicated servant and master in the democratic (?) India, about America returned confused being, about rotten bureaucrats and rotting Indian system, about the eccentric lifestyles of categories of people, about China, America and much more to mention here
- There are many moments when you can hear yourself crying out words like -- Yuk!...EEEEEEEE!(if u r a girl ;)), how he could!! And many of your personal vocabulary gathering
- You may hate Delhi and overall metros at some (rather many) points. Sometimes India too
- And you may hate your driver too, if you have one
- Its humorous, justifiable and unjustifiable at the same time, very angry sometimes and very true
- Simple and slangy in expression
- Ratings???? - - 4.13 Stars out of 5
6 comments:
Apeksha, better late than never! :)
On the book, I suppose I went through the same set of emotions as you did while reading the book.
I would say the author pretty well depicted his understanding of the society via different characters in the book.
But unfortunately, he did not go one step ahead and showed that the driver was a person who had a will and courage to come over his inabilities and make a change into his own life or to the society. So this book left me unfulfilled..and I didn't like it much.
I would rate 2/5.
@Paresh
yep, your view is also correct and so i wrote that the story is "justifiable and unjustifiable at the same time"
2/5 is also very much justifiable.
how come you rated it 4.13? in decimal points? :P
:)
don't bother about the decimals..it's there without any particular reason..didn't wanted to rate 4 and a half
Good analysis....Definately like to read this book...!!!
Good sense of humor...:)
Gud aps, me pun vachen....
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