Aravind Adiga, one of the two debut novelists on the 2008 shortlist, won the Man Booker prize this week for The White Tiger, a bracingly modern novel about the dark side of the new India. The White Tiger takes a sharp and unblinking look at the reality of India's economic miracle. Its antihero and narrator, Balram Halwai, is a cocksure, uneducated young man, the son of an impoverished rickshaw driver. By lying, betraying and using his sharp intelligence, Balram makes his ascent into the heady heights of Bangalore's big business.
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel written in the English language by a citizen of either the Commonwealth of Nations or Irleand. The White Tiger and other novels on the short list are available in the library.
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