A humble Indian driver turned business entrepreneur writes a series of letters to the Premier of China, and through these letters gradually reveals an unsettling tale of crime, murder, and revenge, in Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger.
Adiga's debut novel, a Man Booker Prize winner, works on several levels; on one, it is a darkly humorous story--told in epistolary form--with an unreliable narrator, but it is also a brutal indictment of the caste system in India, and India society and politics in general.
The White Tiger can be enjoyed on the surface as a thriller, or more deeply as a look at a fractured society. Recommended either way.
I listened to a very good audiobook reading of this on loan from the New Castle-Henry County Public Library.
Adiga's debut novel, a Man Booker Prize winner, works on several levels; on one, it is a darkly humorous story--told in epistolary form--with an unreliable narrator, but it is also a brutal indictment of the caste system in India, and India society and politics in general.
The White Tiger can be enjoyed on the surface as a thriller, or more deeply as a look at a fractured society. Recommended either way.
I listened to a very good audiobook reading of this on loan from the New Castle-Henry County Public Library.
No comments:
Post a Comment