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The White Tiger - Limited Slipcase Edition

The White Tiger - Limited Slipcase Edition

by Aravind Adiga

Publisher Atlantic Books

Genre: General Fiction

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About the book

Here's a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life - possessive, even. You know more about him than his father and mother; they knew his foetus, but you know his corpse.

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 cockroaches, call-centres, thirty-six-million gods, slums, shopping malls, and crippling traffic jams, Balram comes to see how the Tiger might slip the bars of his cage.

This limited edition of the Man Booker Prize Winner is one of 1500 copies printed.

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About the Author

Aravind Adiga

Aravind Adiga, born 1974, is an Indo-Australian writer and journalist. His debut novel, The White Tiger, won the 2008 Man Booker Prize.


Aravind Adiga began his journalistic career as a financial journalist, interning at the Financial Times. With pieces published in the Financial Times and Money, he covered the stock market and investment, interviewing, amongst others, Donald Trump. His review of previous Booker Prize winner Peter Carey's book, Oscar and Lucinda, appeared in The Second Circle, an online literary review.


He was subsequently hired by TIME, where he remained a South Asia correspondent for three years before going freelance. During this freelance period, he wrote The White Tiger.


Adiga now lives in Mumbai, India.

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