Winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
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
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.
