The White Tiger (Unabridged)
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By Aravind Adiga
Narrated By Bindya Solanki
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Audiobook Summary: Winner of the British Book Awards, Author of the Year, 2009. Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2008. Balram Halwai is the White Tiger - the smartest boy in his village. Too poor to finish school, he has to work in a teashop until the day a rich man hires him as a chauffeur, and takes him to live in Delhi. The city is a revelation. Balram becomes aware of immense wealth all around him, and realizes the only way he can become part of it is by murdering his master. The White Tiger presents a raw and unromanticized India, both thrilling and shocking. ©2008 Aravind Adiga; (P)2008 Oakhill Publishing Ltd Published: 12/01/2008, Oakhill Publishing Ltd Customers who bought this also bought… £29.49 £7.99 £6.99 £13.49 £7.99 £24.49 £7.99 Critics Reviews "Dazzling...an Indian novel that explodes the cliches...It's a thrilling ride through a global power...Brimming with idiosyncrasy, sarcastic, cunning and often hilarious." (The Independent) Customer Reviews 20 Visitors' Rating: Don't get me wrong, I loved "God of Small Things" and enjoyed "A Suitable Boy" and still think "Shame" is Rushdie's finest novel, but Adiga's "White Tiger" explores a very different India. No elaborate weddings, no saris and spices, no arranged marriages - this is the India of the economic miracle of the 'Electronic City' that is Bangalore, of self-appointed 'entrepreneurs' like Balram Halwai who have come from "the Darkness" of small villages and are eager for wealth and status. Written in the form of a seven letters to Wen Jiabao, the visiting Chinese premier, offering him lessons in entrepreneurship and democracy, but Balram's rags-to-riches tales is in fact it is a lesson in poverty, humiliation and murder. Adiga's narrative voice is sharp and sardonic, his grasp of telling images and details haunting and his satire of the Indian middle classes lacerating. This is not a novel for those with romantic illusions about India - it is angry, didactic, funny, furious and viscerally compelling Frank, London, United Kingdom 28/12/2008 16/16 registered users found this helpful | Register Very enjoyable read, nice story line and very educational about India and it's history. First book of A Adiga I had listened but, would happy to listen anymore he writes Bradley, Bishop's Stortford, United Kingdom 11/02/2009 3/3 registered users found this helpful | Register A magnificent tale, beginning in 'the darkness', deep interior India which provides the servants to the middle classes of Guragaon. The journey of the White Tiger is wonderfully vivid, from the coal fields of Bihar to the fairy-tale towers of Gurgaon, and on to twenty-first century Bangalore, each location drawn with brilliant and cruel accuracy, and each character with its real-life parallels. I'm not sure I'd give this to my friends whose lives are reflected here, the depictions of place and person are so close to the bone! Aravind Adiga does justice to the wonderful complexity of India. parvati, Pinner, United Kingdom 14/03/2009 1/1 registered users found this helpful | Register Read more customer reviews A gripping story offering insights into the underbelly of Indian culture. However, the effect is dimished by the reader who sounds very much like she is reading the story for the first time, complete with incorrect pauses and mispronunciations. Mark, Ruislip, United Kingdom 04/04/2009 1/1 registered users found this helpful | Register The story is entertaining enough, by turn, shocking, funny and enlightening. However the reader is just plain poor. Her Indian ancent often tails off to deepest Essex. Also I thought it odd that a female was chosen to voice the narative, which is that off a young India man. That is not a misogynist view, I would find it equally odd having a man read a female narative. Anthony, Amersham, United Kingdom 28/06/2009 This is probably the worst book I have had the misfortune of listening to. I am not put of by books containing bad language but if you took the profanity out of this book there is very little left. Coupled with a poor narrator I was glad to actually get to the end of this book. I was left wondering why it had actually been published. beauthewhippet, Preston, United Kingdom 11/04/2009 This was my first audible book and I really enjoyed it. There was a good balance of interesting story line as well as some cultural enlightenment. Some funny parts made it entertaining and the clever storyline made the book gripping. To be recommended. Bev, United Kingdom 20/07/2009 This is a step outside of my usual genre's and I loved it. Each time I stopped listening I looked forward to the opportunity to hear more. An interesting insight into the other side of the new India. I thought the readers accent also added to the effect of putting me in Balarams shoes. ste5eu, United Kingdom 30/07/2009 I am struggling to finish listening to this book as the reader is so poor. I find her delivery deeply irritating. It sounds like she has never read an audio book before and that there is no direction. Her monotone voice makes the production seem amateur. It is such a shame. I think I will have to read the book this time. Tei, United Kingdom 31/07/2009 Wonderful introduction into an India one never hears of. The story is both compelling and appalling at the same time. The narrator could have been better chosen but this did not take away from the plot. Sairose, toronto, Canada 05/07/2009
Audiobook Keywords: Fiction, Literary