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teaboy never flags.In creatinga character who is both witty and psychopathic,Mr Adiga has produceda hero almost as memorable as Pip,proving himself the Charles Dickensof the call-centre generation.'  \n# ECONOMIST\n\n'A furious and brutally effective counterblast to smug\"India is shining”rhetoric...It is certain of its mission,and pursues it with an undeviatingdetermination you wouldn't expect in a first novel.…'  \n# PETER ROBINS,DAILY TELEGRAPH\n\n'A masterpiece'  \nSATHNAM SANGHERA,THE TIMES  \n'Adiga's portrait of the Indian capital is very funny but unmistakably angry…Balram's violent bid for freedom is shocking.What,we're left to ask,does itmake him-just another thug in India's urban jungle or a revolutionary andidealist?It's a sign of this book's quality,as well as of its moral seriousness,that it keeps you guessing to the final page and beyond.'  \n# ADRIAN TURPIN,FINANCIAL TIMES\n\n'Brilliantly inventive'WILLIAM SKIDELSKY,OBSERVER  \n'Aravind Adiga's riveting,razor-sharp debut novel explores with wit andinsight the realities of [the]two Indias,and reveals what happens when theinhabitants of one collude and then collide with those of the other...Thetruth,as it begins to emerge,is as shocking as it is fantastic.It's a richsubject,and Adiga mines allits darkly comic possibilities.Halwai's voice-wised-up,mordant,sardonic,self-mocking and utterly without illusions-isas compelling as it is persuasive,and one of the triumphs of the book.'  \n# SOUMYA BHATTACHARYA,INDEPENDENT\n\n# The White Tiger\n\nARAVIND ADIGA was born in Madras in 1974.He studied atColumbia and Oxford Universities.A former Indian corres-pondent for Time magazine,his articles have also appearedin publications such as the Financial Times,the Independentand the Sunday Times.He lives in Mumbai.The WhiteTiger is his first novel.  \nAstonishingly assured and captivating...It is every bit as good asBonfire [of the Vanities]and it does for India what that book did forNew York City;and possibly what Charles Dickens did for VictorianBritain.'Tablet  \n'Richly detailed storytelling that will captivate his audience...TheWhite Tiger contains passages of startling beauty-from reflectionson the exquisite luxury of a chandelier in every room,to descrip-tions of skinny drivers huddled around fires fueled by plastic bags.Adiga never lets the precision of his language overshadow the real-ities at hand:No matter how potent his language one never losessight of the men and women fighting impossible odds to survive.'San Francisco Chronicle  \n'Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger is one of the most powerful booksI've read in decades.No hyperbole.This debut novel from anIndian journalist living in Mumbai hit me like a kick to the head...This is an amazing and angry novel about injustice and power.'USA Today  \n‘Extremely bold,brilliantly written,but too determined to shock.'Nadine Gordimer  \n'There have been many India books this past year or two,butAravind Adiga's debut novel,which shines a 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