![]() ![]() The White Tiger is a sultry, sarcastic, socially charged story of India in its binary of “dark” and “light”. The Man Booker Prize committee emphasised on the novel’s humorous take on “a different aspect of India.” The committee also commented, “The book gains from dealing with pressing social issues and significant global developments with astonishing humour.” In a nutshell, Adiga tells a story of a man deprived of the riches belonging to the ‘darkness’ of Bihar’s poverty and decline, who climbs up the social ladder and becomes a part of the ‘light’ and ‘civilization’. ![]() A journalist by profession, this was Adiga’s very first novel. The novel partakes in quite the dark humour. The book garnered mixed reactions from the readers for Adiga’s humorous portrayal of the social and class system in India. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga was published in 2008 and won the Man Booker Prize in the same year. ![]()
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