I bought this in a second hand shop to be released. I have read this earlier and I liked it a lot. But I don´t remember much from it.
OMTALE:The white tiger

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008 Balram Halwai is the White Tiger - the smartest boy in his village. His family is too poor for him to afford for him to finish school and he has to work in a teashop, breaking coals and wiping tables. But Balram gets his break when a rich man hires him as a chauffeur, and takes him to live in Delhi. The city is a revelation. As he drives his master to shopping malls and call centres, Balram becomes increasingly aware of immense wealth and opportunity all around him, while knowing that he will never be able to gain access to that world. As Balram broods over his situation, he realizes that there is only one way he can become part of this glamorous new India - by murdering his master. The White Tiger presents a raw and unromanticised India, both thrilling and shocking - from the desperate, almost lawless villages along the Ganges, to the booming Wild South of Bangalore and its technology and outsourcing centres. The first-person confession of a murderer, The White Tiger is as compelling for its subject matter as for the voice of its narrator - amoral, cynical, unrepentant, yet deeply endearing.

At the Bookcrossing Convention in Oslo.

This book has been recommended to me at the Convention. Well, I'm up to experiments. That's one of the things with bookcrossing: you are going to read outside your usually field.

The story sounds so true and I believe the author describes the real current situation in India. I'm shocked and scared. Don't want to go there. Sure, in our western societies is also a lot of bribing and the like, but I think a doctor here will go to his/her appointed job and a teacher does teach (and gets paid).
I finished the book at the board game weekend in Hoechst (Odenwald) where the book found a new reader.