A good read.
Don't know how time flew with the book and finished It in 2 days.
It’s a critic of the Indian society and is wrote in such a way that a reader from India will feel sad reading it. But, Aravind said in an interview that, just like books of Charles Dickens and other European writers shaped the society of Europe in the 19th century, his book tends to shape the Indian society in this 20th century.
The book is about a person - Munna/ Balram, a man in darkness of a backward class sweet maker family. The plot is how this person turns out to be an entrepreneur from there. The story is narrated as first person by Munna. He tells about a rooster coop system which pulls back backward people when they try to escape and go into the light.
Balram was driver of Ashok who is a return from US. This social novel also highlight the corrupt Indian society and says India is swallowed in corruption. He says that its a never ending loop. The politician takes money from tax evaders and police take money from shop owners making the whole society corrupt and the best part is all are happy with it.
He labels himself as a White Tiger - A once at a time rare species.
As the story unfolds he explains how he cold bloodedly killed his master Ashok and ran with the money which was meant to bribe a minister and turns out to be an entrepreneur.
Most stories will just take you there and stop. But Aravind Adiga goes a step forward and explains how Munna establishes a business in the heart of Bangalore city by giving bribes to police who took the money even when he was on the wanted list for murder and that notice is there in that police station just behind the cop.
He says that his family would have already paid the price for the murder and would have been killed in his village laxmangarh.
For the work, Aravind won the man booker prize in 2008.
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