The White Tiger

by Aravind Adiga | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 184354721X Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingApoloniaXwing of Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin Germany on 1/24/2019
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Journal Entry 1 by wingApoloniaXwing from Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin Germany on Thursday, January 24, 2019
The White Tiger is the debut novel by Indian author Aravind Adiga. It was first published in 2008 and won the Man Booker Prize in the same year. The novel provides a darkly comical view of modern day life in India through the narration of its protagonist Balram Halwai. The main theme of the novel is the contrast between India's rise as a modern global economy and its working class people who live in crushing poverty. Other themes touched on include the corruption endemic to Indian society and politics, familial loyalty versus independence, religious tensions between Hindus and Muslims, the experience of returning to India after living in America, globalization, and the rivalry between India and China as superpower countries in Asia.
(Wikipedia)
Excellent! Read it about ten years ago.

Journal Entry 2 by wingApoloniaXwing at Lisboa - Caís do Sodré, Lisboa (cidade) Portugal on Monday, January 28, 2019

Released 5 yrs ago (1/30/2019 UTC) at Lisboa - Caís do Sodré, Lisboa (cidade) Portugal

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Wishlist book for conto.
Happy reading!

Journal Entry 3 by conto at Lisboa (city), Lisboa (distrito) Portugal on Thursday, January 31, 2019
What a wonderful surprise!
Thank you so very much, ApoloniaX. I'd say your offer made my day, if getting to know you in person hadn't already done the job.
I'm under a bit of a mountain of books to read that must be sent to other BCers, before getting my hands on this one, but I'll do so as soon as I possibly can.

Journal Entry 4 by conto at Lisboa (city), Lisboa (distrito) Portugal on Sunday, August 22, 2021
I should know better by now, not to make promises I can't keep. Took me a while to get to this book and all I can say in my defence is that I've been reading close to nothing this last couple of years. Once in a while I seem to regain speed, only to go back to no reading at all for weeks on end.
Still, I got to read this book from the end of July to the beginning of August, mixing it with some non-fiction readings and I'm glad I did it, because I enjoyed it, even if not as much as Last Man in Tower, a more solid book in my opinion.
This one, even if it reads easily and even if it gives a good, though caricatured idea of modern India, an India that seems to go from one form of bad to another, it shows too much of a western educated voice. Also, the story it tells never really raised my interest, apart from the depiction of the country itself, as well as the main character, with whom I never related, never felt neither sympathy nor the opposite, because he just felt artificial and fake.
Still, it was worth the read and I'm glad I went for the ride.
Thanks again, ApoloniaX :)

It's now available for whoever wants to give it a try or else I'll find a suitable destination for it.

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