The White Tiger

Aravind Adiga 2008

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
India class capitalism murder

Our Take

Balram Halwai writes a letter to the Premier of China explaining how he became an entrepreneur — by murdering his employer. Adiga's satire of Indian economic liberalization is told by a man who has no illusions about what the Darkness and the Light are. The roosters in the coop are us. Balram got out.

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