Aravind Adiga

The White Tiger

Meet Balram Halwai, the 'White Tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer.

 Balram was born in a backwater village on the River Ganges, the son of a rickshaw-puller. He works in a teashop, crushing coal and wiping tables, but nurses a dream of escape. 

When he learns that a rich village landlord needs a chauffeur, he takes his opportunity, and is soon on his way to Delhi at the wheel of a Honda. 

Amid today's India's cockroaches and call-centres, its 36,000,004 gods, slums, shopping malls, and crippling traffic jams, Balram learns of a new morality at the heart of a new India. 

Driven by desire to better himself, he comes to see how the Tiger might escape his cage... through murder.

Signed by Aravind Adiga to the title page

Winner of The Booker Prize 2008 

A fine, unread copy of a first edition, first impression hardback in a near fine, unclipped dustjacket (some slight laminate loss to picture of car on front cover)

published - Atlantic Books, 2008