I will start this short review with two equally little confessions. First, I know next to nothing about India, and second, when I picked this book up I was under the very mistaken impression that it was an urban-fantasy book. Luckily my ignorance of the setting was not so great as to have kept me un...
Wow. I can't believe a murderer just won me over with his story?! I get that that is the trick the story plays on you, but.. it might have played me? I am glad of the insight into India's daily life, its incredible corruption and corruption as a practical concept that I got from this novel. All in a...
This book was really perplexing I really don’t know what to make out of it! I felt as if Mr Aravind Adiga doesn't really have a good opinion about India not even ONE good opinion for that matter. According to me being a writer you should think before you put things in to papers. You should give both...
Originally posted on my blog Guiltless Reading.Poverty, ambition, amorality: what a murderous combination. Balram Halwai introduces himself as "The White Tiger, a Thinking Man and an Entrepreneur." This book -- a letter written to the president of China -- is his autobiography written from the light...
This was a great, darkly humorous book a friend recommended to me stating that it was her favourite book of 2012. I can definitely see why. In this novel we find Balram Halwai, a sweetmaker from a small Indian village. He is from a low caste and finds a job working as a servant/driver to a rich Indi...
I am sorry, I seriously don't understand why this book is so famous. I mean, yeah, it was good, ('okay' maybe) but it's not worth the popularity it has received.Its not something you'll dwell on for days and if I am being too honest I was eager to be done with this book. I skimmed through most of th...
There is a lot to like about this book. There is a lot to dislike too. Far more to dislike, really.I distinctly did not enjoy the style of Adiga choose to write this in. It kept me out of the story, knowing it was in the form of letters that did not seem real. I kept questioning their validity, and ...
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