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Free Press, April 2008
eBook, 304 pages
ISBN-10: 1416562737
ISBN-13: 9781416562733
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Awards and Nominations
- Man Booker Prize
Description
The white tiger of this novel is Balram Halwai, a poor Indian villager whose great ambition leads him to the zenith of Indian business culture, the world of the Bangalore entrepreneur. On the occasion of the president of China’s impending trip to Bangalore, Balram writes a letter to him describing his transformation and his experience as driver and servant to a wealthy Indian family, which he thinks exemplifies the contradictions and complications of Indian society.
The White Tiger recalls The Death of Vishnu and Bangkok 8 in ambition, scope, and 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.
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Browse Inside The White Tiger"Compelling, angry, and darkly humorous, The White Tiger is an unexpected journey into a new India. Aravind Adiga is a talent to watch."
-- Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist
"An exhilarating, side-splitting account of India today, as well as an eloquent howl at her many injustices. Adiga enters the literary scene resplendent in battle dress and ready to conquer. Let us bow to him."
-- Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan and The Russian Debutante's Handbook
"The perfect antidote to lyrical India." - Publishers Weekly
"This fast-moving novel, set in India, is being sold as a corrective to the glib, dreamy exoticism Western readers often get...If these are the hands that built India, their grandkids really are going to kick America's ass...BUY IT." - New York Magazine
"Darkly comic...Balram's appealingly sardonic voice and acute observations of the social order are both winning and unsettling." - The New Yorker
"Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger is one of the most powerful books I've read in decades. No hyperbole. This debut novel from an Indian journalist living in Mumbai hit me like a kick to the head
-- the same effect Richard Wright's Native Son and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man had. - USA Today
"This is the authentic voice of the Third World, like you've never heard it before. Adiga is a global Gorky, a modern Kipling who grew up, and grew up mad. The future of the novel lies here." - John Burdett, author of Bangkok 8
"Fierce and funny...A satire as sharp as it gets." - Michael Upchurch, The Seattle Times
"There is a new Muse stalking global narrative: brown, angry, hilarious, half-educated, rustic-urban, iconoclastic, paan-spitting, word-smithing
-- and in the case of Aravind Adiga she hails from a town called Laxmangarh. This is the authentic voice of the Third World, like you've never heard it before. Adiga is a global Gorky, a modern Kipling who grew up, and grew up mad. The future of the novel lies here." - John Burdett, author of Bangkok 8
"The White Tiger echoes masterpieces of resistance and oppression (both The Jungle and Native Son come to mind) [and] contains passages of startling beauty." - Lee Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle
"Unpretentious and compulsively readable...Aravind Adiga's auspicious debut novel is at once a fascinating glimpse beneath the surface of an Indian economic "miracle," a heart-stopping psychological tale of a premeditated murder and its aftermath, and a meticulously conceived allegory of the creative destruction that's driving globalization." - The New York Sun
"A funny and imaginative tour of... a side of India not often highlighted in fiction...In refusing to wallow in superficial exoticism or South Asian family tensions, The White Tiger finds its own path to multifaceted success: it's both a riveting existential crime story and an exposé of social injustice." - Scott Indrisek, Time Out New York
"Blazingly savage and brilliant... an excoriating piece of work, relentless in its stripping away of the veneer of 'India Rising' to expose its rotting heart...Adiga is going to go places. We'd do well to follow him." - Neel Mukherjee, The Sunday Telegraph
"Hysterical, darkly comic." - The Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ)
"Fiercely satirical... Adiga, who was born in India in 1974, writes forcefully about a corrupt culture...An undisciplined debut...with plenty of vitality." - Kirkus Reviews
"While the early tone of the book calls to mind the heartbreaking inequities of Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance, a better comparison is to Frederick Douglass's narrative about how he broke out of slavery...Recommended for all libraries." - Library Journal
"A coruscating critique of contemporary rural India." - The BBC World Service
"Aravind Adiga's riveting, razor-sharp debut novel explores with wit and insight the realities of [India]...[and] Adiga mines all its darkly comic possibilities. Halwai's voice - wised-up, mordant, sardonic, self-mocking and utterly without illusions - is as compelling as it is persuasive, and one of the triumphs of the book. Adiga has a finely alert eye and ear...Adiga has been gutsy in tackling a complex and urgent subject. His is a novel that has come not a moment too soon.' Soumya Bhattacharya in the Independent"- Vogue (UK)
"One of the most promising new books...is Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger, reputed to be the grittiest novel to come out of India for some time." - Ben Lytal, The New York Sun
"A realistic, often grimly comic look at the matter of class in contemporary India...Despite his scapegrace behavior and racist convictions, Balram somehow manages to win the reader over. Maybe it's because of his scapegrace behavior." - Daniel Menaker, titlepage.tv
"A... riveting ...tale that faintly echoes Dostoevsky,[and] a vivid and disturbing picture of life in the strikingly different cultures that comprise modern India. ... Balram's voice is seductive and his observations are acute, laced both with a sardonic wit and a trace of sadness ... This intense, unsettling novel will open the eyes of many Western readers." - BookPage
"Sensational...Balram is a seriously charming sociopath...A fascinating glimpse beneath the surface of India's economic miracle, you'll never think of 'creative destruction' the same way again." - Scott Medintz, Fast Company
"...marks the arrival of a storyteller who strikes a fine balance between the sociology of the wretched place he has chosen as home and the twisted humanism of the outcast....Adiga as a storyteller drives on the fourth gear." - S. Prasannarajan, India Today
"Electrifying." - The Economic Times (India)
"Some of the most acute social criticism yet made of the new Indian middle class....The sort of writing that the new India needs but isn't getting enough of." - Nakul Krishna, The New Statesman (UK)
"An intelligent and ruthless portrait of the India in the making -- shining or rising, but always sinking
-- shot through with wit and black humour that match the author's economy with words...The real power of this book comes from its total lack of sentimentality and the consequent realism it thus manages." - The Indian Express
"It's one of the best first novels in years [and] an angry political novel presented as a word-perfect satirical delight, a banquet of moral complexity that will keep you laughing and thinking long after it's finished." - Nick DiMartino, Shelf Awareness
"Literature has a noble tradition of sympathetic psychopaths. Balram Halwai, protagonist of Aravind Adiga's impressive first novel, demands admittance to their hall of fame." - The Financial Times
"There is much to commend in this novel, a witty parable of India's changing society." - The Guardian
"Unlike almost any other Indian novel you might have read in recent years, this page-turner offers a completely bald, angry, unadorned portrait of the country as seen from the bottom of the heap; there's not a sniff of saffron or a swirl of sari anywhere.."- Andrew Holgate, Sunday Times
Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 11, 2011
...Aravind Adiga's latest novel, "Last Man in Tower" (Alfred A. Knopf, 382 pages, $26.95), is a beautifully written, moving narrative about the various middle-class residents of an aging building ...
Guardian.co.uk, October 3, 2011
...a dazzling array of recommendations . There was praise for writers already familiar in the UK, with Tanu hailing Aravind Adiga's Booker winner, White Tiger, "not colonial, not post-colonial, just urban Indian", and AggieH testifying to ...
Seattle Times, September 27, 2011
...'Last Man in Tower' by Aravind Adiga Knopf, 400 pp., $26.95 Aravind Adiga, winner of the Man Booker Prize for "The White Tiger," brings readers another look at an India at once simple and ...
USA Today, September 25, 2011
...If you loved the movie Slumdog Millionaire, you will inhale the novel Last Man in Tower. Indian author Aravind Adiga blasted onto the literary scene with The White Tiger. Set in the slums of India, his Godfather meets Richard Wright's Native ...
National Post, September 23, 2011
...Last Man in Tower By Aravind Adiga Bond Street Books 382 pp; $32 Reviewed by Charles Foran No more outlandish character has emerged in 21st century Indian fiction than Bombay. The streets, apartments and temples of ...
Montreal Gazette, September 17, 2011
...low the bottom rungs on India’s social ladder are. It’s in the middle of Vakola that Aravind Adiga has chosen to set his new novel. Adiga won the Man Booker Prize in 2008 for his debut novel, The White Tiger, and followed it up with the ...
Georgia Straight, September 14, 2011
...Last Man in Tower By Aravind Adiga. Bond Street Books, 382 pp, hardcover To the residents of Vishram Society, a Mumbai apartment complex, Dharmen Shah’s offer is the windfall of a lifetime. All that stands ...
Christian Science Monitor, September 7, 2011
...an American college campus. (October) (Viking, 336 pp.)After surprising the world with his Booker Prize-winning novel “The White Tiger,” Indian author Aravind Adiga now turns his attention to questions of money and power with Last Man in ...
Suite101.com, January 8, 2010
...and a convincing social outlook. This has been succeeded to great effect in the by the Indian journalist Aravind Adiga. In the emphasis of the narrative is not on the crime itself (we find out about that only at the end) but in the character ...
Island Packet, December 31, 2009
...11 at the Sea Island Presbyterian Church on Lady's Island with a review of the prize-winning mystery "White Tiger." The 23rd season of the Books Sandwiched In program features eight book reviews from 1 to 2 p.m. every Monday starting Jan. 11 ...
Buxton Today, December 1, 2009
...a small coastal community in eastern Australia. It beat shortlisted works from Booker prize and Orange Prize-winning authors, Aravind Adiga and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Indian author Adiga won the Booker Prize last year for The White Tiger. ...
Telegraph, November 30, 2009
...Rhys Prize for her debut novel, After the Fire, the Still Small Voice. In so doing she beat Aravind Adiga, the much-lauded Indian author whose novel White Tiger stole the Man Booker last year, and Chimamanda Adichie, the Nigerian whose Half ...
Times Online, November 13, 2009
...fails to drip down the social ladder, the hordes languishing at the bottom will turn hostile. Specifically, as Aravind Adiga observed in this case, they fear that their servants will not be able to resist the temptation to steal from or even ...
Deccan Herald, November 4, 2009
...Adiga, Rushdie shortlisted for Dublin Literary award New Delhi, Nov 4 ,Agencies : Booker Prize winners Aravind Adiga and Salman Rushdie have been named in the longlist for the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, a top recognition ...
Telegraph, October 31, 2009
...Our literary insider Joe Allston on the trials of Booker-winner Aravind Adiga, Lynda LaPlante's weird logic, and John Le Carr's defection to Penguin By Joe Allston Published: 6:10AM GMT 31 Oct 2009 * Just when you thought the ...
India Today, October 30, 2009
...Harper Collins India is still celebrating the stupendous success of Aravind Adiga's Man Booker prize- winning debut novel, The White Tiger, which has sold more than a lakh-and-a-half copies in hardback. On Thursday, it pulled off a coup by ...
Yahoo! India, October 29, 2009
...New Delhi, Oct 29 (IANS) After winning the 2008 Man Booker Prize for his debut novel, 'The White Tiger', Indian-born author Aravind Adiga will publish his second venture 'Last Man in the Tower' in early 2011, the author's publisher said ...
BBC, October 26, 2009
...Nigeria but moved to the US when she was 19 to study Award-winning novelists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Aravind Adiga will go head-to-head for this year's John Llewellyn Rhys literary prize. Adichie's short story collection The Thing ...
Air Force Times, October 12, 2009
...s “Angela’s Ashes” and Edward P. Jones’ “The Known World.” Since April, my obsession has been “The White Tiger,” the first novel by Aravind Adiga about modern India. My pitch: It’s like Vito Corlone from “The Godfather” ...
Lebanon Daily Star, October 9, 2009
...000) and all but guarantees worldwide readership and an upsurge in book sales. Last years winner was Indias Aravind Adiga for his debut novel The White Tiger, which has sold more than half a million copies and been translated into 30 ...
Taipei Times Online, October 8, 2009
...all but guarantees worldwide readership and an upsurge in book sales. Last year’s winner was India’s Aravind Adiga for his debut novel The White Tiger, which has sold more than half a million copies and been translated into 30 languages. ...
Taipei Times Online, October 7, 2009
...all but guarantees worldwide readership and an upsurge in book sales. Last year’s winner was India’s Aravind Adiga for his debut novel The White Tiger, which has sold more than half a million copies and been translated into 30 languages. ...
IAfrica.com, October 7, 2009
...all but guarantees worldwide readership and an upsurge in book sales. Last year's winner was India's Aravind Adiga for his debut novel 'The White Tiger', which has sold more than half a million copies and been translated into 30 languages. ...
New Straits Times, October 7, 2009
...pounds and all but guarantees worldwide readership and an upsurge in book sales. Last years winner was Indias Aravind Adiga for his debut novel The White Tiger, which has sold more than half a million copies and been translated into 30 ...
Sowetan, October 7, 2009
...all but guarantees worldwide readership and an upsurge in book sales. Last year’s winner was India’s Aravind Adiga for his debut novel “The White Tiger”, which has sold more than half a million copies and been translated into 30 ...
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...all but guarantees worldwide readership and an upsurge in book sales. Last year's winner was India's Aravind Adiga for his debut novel 'The White Tiger', which has sold more than half a million copies and been translated into 30 languages. ...
Yahoo! News Australia, October 6, 2009
...all but guarantees worldwide readership and an upsurge in book sales. Last year's winner was India's Aravind Adiga for his debut novel The White Tiger, which has sold more than half a million copies and been translated into 30 languages. ...
The Independent, October 6, 2009
...all but guarantees worldwide readership and an upsurge in book sales. Last year's winner was India's Aravind Adiga for his debut novel 'The White Tiger', which has sold more than half a million copies and been translated into 30 languages. ...
AFP via Yahoo!, October 6, 2009
...all but guarantees worldwide readership and an upsurge in book sales. Last year's winner was India's Aravind Adiga for his debut novel 'The White Tiger', which has sold more than half a million copies and been translated into 30 languages. ...
Adelaide Now, October 6, 2009
...all but guarantees worldwide readership and a surge in book sales. Last year's winner was India's Aravind Adiga for his debut novel The White Tiger, which has sold more than half a million copies and been translated into 30 languages. ...
Yahoo! Canada, October 6, 2009
...and all but guarantees worldwide readership and an upsurge in book sales. Last year's prize went to Aravind Adiga for his debut novel 'The White Tiger', which has sold more than half a million copies and been translated into 30 languages. ...
Nine MSN, October 6, 2009
...and all but guarantees worldwide readership and an upsurge in book sales. Last year's prize went to Aravind Adiga for his debut novel The White Tiger, which has sold more than half a million copies and been translated into 30 languages. ...
570News, October 6, 2009
...s Book.' A Booker win all but guarantees a a big surge in sales. Last year's winner, Aravind Adiga's 'The White Tiger,' has sold more than half a million copies and been translated into 30 languages. The prize always attracts bets from ...
Amherst Daily News, October 6, 2009
...Book." A Booker win all but guarantees a a big surge in sales. Last year's winner, Aravind Adiga's "The White Tiger," has sold more than half a million copies and been translated into 30 languages. The prize always attracts bets from ...
MSN Entertainment, October 6, 2009
...Book." A Booker win all but guarantees a a big surge in sales. Last year's winner, Aravind Adiga's "The White Tiger," has sold more than half a million copies and been translated into 30 languages. The prize always attracts bets from ...
Emirates News Agency, September 30, 2009
...currently being translated by Jonathan Wright and will go on sale next spring. Atlantic Books is publisher of Aravind Adiga's recent Man Booker Prize winning novel 'The White Tiger' and much other recent prestigious literary fiction. Several ...
Telegraph, September 8, 2009
...leads to a huge jump in sales, as well as international acclaim. Last year's prize went to Aravind Adiga for The White Tiger, which has sold more than half a million copies and been translated into 30 different languages. Completing the ...
Woman & Home, August 16, 2009
...will leave you wondering what lies behind even the nicest faade. If you liked this, why not try&The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (Atlantic, 7.99)The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Quercus, 7.99) Read more great book reviews ...
Woman & Home, August 14, 2009
...will leave you wondering what lies behind even the nicest faade. If you liked this, why not try&The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (Atlantic, 7.99)The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Quercus, 7.99) Read more great book reviews ...
Christian Science Monitor, August 13, 2009
...First Believed, by Wally Lamb, Harper Perennial 14. People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks, Penguin 15. The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga, Free Press ON THE RISE: A Most Wanted Man, by John le Carré, Scribner Le Carré?s latest novel of ...
Ludlow Advertiser, August 12, 2009
...BALRAM Halwai, the white tiger of this month?s Book Group selection by Aravind Agida, decides from the moment a school inspector gives him the name of the rarest of beasts, that he will ...
Media Newswire, August 12, 2009
...September and the winner at a ceremony in London's Guildhall on 6 October. The 2008 winner was Aravind Adiga for his first novel The White Tiger ...
Sydney Morning Herald, July 29, 2009
...themes that make this an outstandingly rich fictional mix''. Australia claimed a link with last year's winner, Aravind Adiga, the Australian-raised Indian author of The White Tiger, which became a bestseller and is being translated into 39 ...
First Post, July 17, 2009
...Aravind Adiga's second work of fiction explores similar territory to his Booker-winning The White Tiger, said Joan Smith in the Times: India's 'startling inequalities of wealth, the caste system ...
Spectator, July 17, 2009
...deceptively beguiling surface, is a Dickensian-dark view of child labour, corruption, poverty, and ruthless privilege in modern India. Aravind Adiga won the Man Booker prize with his first novel, The White Tiger, a savage picture of modern ...
Examiner.com, July 16, 2009
...Towson Branch of the Baltimore County Public Library, 320 York Road. Be ready to share your thoughts about Aravind Adiga?s The White Tiger. Free. 410-887-6166. For more info: If you have an event you want featured on 'Week with Words' send ...
Times Online, July 3, 2009
...Aravind Adiga won the Man Booker prize last year for his first novel,The White Tiger, which brilliantly exposed the inhuman attitudes of Indias wealthy elite. After such a triumphant debut ...
Sound Money, June 25, 2009
...Man Booker Prize-winning author Aravind Adiga's new book 'Between the Assassinations' looks at life in India in the 1980s, prior to the economic reforms of the following decade. Kai Ryssdal talks to Adiga about ...
San Francisco Chronicle, June 20, 2009
...Following the international success of 'The White Tiger,' Aravind Adiga's Man Booker Prize-winning debut novel, might daunt the most surefooted of writers. But Adiga's second book, 'Between the Assassinations' - interconnected stories all ...
National Post, June 11, 2009
...In 2008, Indian author Aravind Adiga was feted as the winner of the Man Booker Prize for his novel The White Tiger. His second book, Between the Assassinations, a connected series of short stories, was ...
St. Petersburg Times, May 2, 2009
...We caught up with him in Tampa at the Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am. What's on your nightstand? The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. Also Netherland by Joseph O'Neill. Next in line is Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals. I ask my smart friends ...
Helium, April 16, 2009
...'Meet Balram Halwai, the 'White Tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepeneur, murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells his story...' This is the first paragraph in the ...
China Post, April 16, 2009
...of a suburban couple in the 1950s whose supposedly normal marriage descends into jealousy and recriminations. 6 THE WHITE TIGER by Aravind Adiga The White Tiger offers a story of wit, blistering suspense, and questionable morality, told by ...
ABC Online, April 15, 2009
...The White Tiger - the Man Booker Prize-winning novel about class tensions in contemporary India - has been optioned for a film adaptation. Smuggler Films, the newly formed company of producer John ...
Indiewire, April 15, 2009
...association with Ascension Entertainment, announced today their acquisition of the rights to 2008 Man Booker Prize Winner, ?The White Tiger,? written by Aravind Adiga. The novel explores the hypocrisies and chaos of contemporary India ...
Yahoo! News Australia, April 15, 2009
...NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - 'The White Tiger,' the Man Booker Prize-winning novel about class tensions in contemporary India, has been optioned for a film adaptation. Smuggler Films, the newly formed company of producer John Hart ...
Reuters, April 15, 2009
...By Steven Zeitchik NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - 'The White Tiger,' the Man Booker Prize-winning novel about class tensions in contemporary India, has been optioned for a film adaptation. Smuggler Films, the newly formed company of ...
Marieclaire.co.uk, March 25, 2009
...of 2008, underlining their importance to publishing houses. By contrast, the best selling author of serious literary fiction, Aravind Adiga, who won the MAN Booker Prize for The White Tiger, only managed to reach 150th place. His debut novel ...
Telegraph, March 24, 2009
...of 2008, underlining their importance to publishing houses. By contrast, the best selling author of serious literary fiction, Aravind Adiga, who won the MAN Booker Prize for The White Tiger, only managed to reach 150th place. His debut novel ...
The Age, March 11, 2009
...pipped Helen Garner, Tim Winton, Joan London, New Zealander Paula Morris and last year's Man Booker winner, Aravind Adiga, to the award. Adiga's The White Tiger was also shortlisted for the best first novel prize that went to Mo Zhi Hong for ...
The Victor Harbor Times, March 10, 2009
...Aravind Adiga, a dual Indian-Australian citizen, has become only the third debut novelist to win the prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction, for his book The White Tiger. Adiga, who moved ...
Glasgow Herald, March 9, 2009
...in the running for best biography. In the author of the year category Mr Obama is up against Aravind Adiga, who won the 2008 Man Booker Prize with The White Tiger; and Sebastian Barry, who won Costa Book of the Year Award for The Secret ...
Globe and Mail, March 3, 2009
...Aravind Adiga came out of nowhere in 2008 when his debut novel, The White Tiger, won the . Then 33, Adiga's book was both praised as a sharp criticism of modern ...
NewKerala.com, February 19, 2009
...Megacity' by Sam Miller is the new book on top of the non-fiction bestseller list this week, while Aravind Adiga's 'The White Tiger' moves back to the top of the fiction list. The top 10 in the non-fiction and fiction lists are: Non-fiction ...
CBC Ottawa, February 19, 2009
...and South Asia are Salman Rushdie for The Enchantress of Florence and Philip Hensher for The Northern Clemency. Aravind Adiga of Australia has two nominations, best first book for his explosive debut, The White Tiger, and best book for ...
Guardian Unlimited, February 18, 2009
...of Thatcherite Britain, The Northern Clemency, garnered a place in the final Booker six, eventually losing out to Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger. The other titles shortlisted for the £1,000 best book from Europe and south Asia award are an ...
Vail Daily, February 8, 2009
...First meeting is Wednesday to discuss ?The White Tiger? Daily Staff Report newsroom@vaildaily.com EmailPrint Comment Special to the Daily The Town of Vail Public Library?s new public book discussion group will convene for the first time ...
Deccan Herald, January 30, 2009
...Slumdog Millionaire continues to face criticism from some quarters for its ?poverty porn peddling?, one might see The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga?s Booker-winning treatise on the underbelly of India, on the big screen soon. The chances of ...
Yahoo! Canada, January 28, 2009
...structural weaknesses in the book.' Barry was shortlisted for the Booker Prize last year but lost out to Aravind Adiga, who took the award for his novel 'The White Tiger'. Accepting the award, he said 'The Secret Scripture' was inspired by ...
Yahoo! UK and Ireland, January 27, 2009
...structural weaknesses in the book.' Barry was shortlisted for the Booker Prize last year but lost out to Aravind Adiga, who took the award for his novel 'The White Tiger.' The Costa Book Award, formerly the Whitbread Book Award, was ...
Breitbart.com, January 27, 2009
...structural weaknesses in the book.' Barry was shortlisted for the Booker Prize last year but lost out to Aravind Adiga, who took the award for his novel 'The White Tiger.' The Costa Book Award, formerly the Whitbread Book Award, was ...
Hollywood Reporter, January 23, 2009
...Related COLOGNE, Germany -- Aravind Adiga's Man Booker Prize-winning 'The White Tiger' will be among the 12 titles vying for film deals at this year's Books at Berlinale event Feb. 10. Adiga's ...
San Francisco Chronicle, January 16, 2009
...on the final lecture given by the Carnegie Mellon University professor after he was diagnosed with cancer. THE WHITE TIGER, Aravind Adiga (Free Press; 304 pages; $14): A chauffeur in India writes letters to the Chinese premier confessing to ...
Guardian Unlimited, January 6, 2009
...17 times, variously described as 'a great American novel' and 'suspenseful, artful, psychologically pitch-perfect, and a wonderful read'. Aravind Adiga's Booker-winning The White Tiger, meanwhile, picked up just seven 'book of the year' ...
BBC, January 5, 2009
...bookmakers' favourite to win the prize, missed out on the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in October to Aravind Adiga for The White Tiger. The Costa Award judges described The Secret Scripture as an 'exquisitely written love story'. The ...
St. Petersburg Times, January 4, 2009
...The Northern Clemency was shortlisted for this year's Man Booker Prize, but lost out to Aravind Adiga's White Tiger. Author Philip Hensher has been a judge in the past, so the defeat must have been especially disheartening, and Hensher has ...
Press Trust of India, December 30, 2008
...writers, publishers rolling out bestsellers and several new authors spinning stories, Indian literature in 2008 saw them all! Aravind Adiga brought cheers to the nation when his novel 'The White Tiger,' an ironic take on the new India with ...
Hindustan Times, December 30, 2008
...So far, my life hasn?t changed at all,? says 34-year-old Aravind Adiga, two months after becoming the fifth writer of Indian origin to win the Man Booker Prize, the world?s most-hyped literary award. But can that really be? With his ...
The Statesman, December 28, 2008
...A novel that intertwines haunting historical atmosphere with sharp ~ sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking ~ storytelling.' l The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga: 'The White Tiger is a compelling first novel about the new India that is ...
The Record, December 27, 2008
...Friedländer Nobel Prize for literature Awarded to the French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio Man Booker Prize The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Orange Broadband Prize Awarded to the woman who has written the best novel in English. ...
Yahoo! India, December 27, 2008
...enough opportunities to raise a toast to the achievements of Indian writers. The high point, of course, was Aravind Adiga winning the Man Booker Prize for his debut novel The White Tiger in October. 'It's certainly been the most exciting ...
The Hindu, December 26, 2008
...Thiruvananthapuram Vijayawada Visakhapatnam THE YEAR THAT WAS... DIVYA KUMAR lists some highlights in the world of fiction From Aravind Adiga to Jeffrey Archer, Jhumpa Lahiri to J.K. Rowling, and some Chetan Bhagat thrown in for good ...
Blogcritics.org, December 24, 2008
...White Tiger by Aravind Adiga has already won the Man Booker Prize, and is being hailed universally by the critics for its virtues in presenting a narrative quite different from the ...
Guardian Unlimited, December 20, 2008
...Unlike some novelists, who will do almost anything to avoid leaving the sanctuary of their quiet, book-lined rooms, Aravind Adiga makes it his business to walk the crammed streets of Mumbai, the city where he has lived for the past two years ...
Guardian Unlimited, December 18, 2008
...Aravind Adiga, this year's Man Booker Prize winner Over the course of a year, I probably read more debut novels than any other kind of book. It's a legacy ...
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