The White Tiger

Aravind Adiga · b. 1974 · India

Why it matters

A village driver claws his way out of servitude toward entrepreneurial success in Bangalore by whatever means the journey demands, confessing it all in letters to a visiting Chinese premier. A pitiless comic inversion of India's celebrated growth story, and Booker winner.

At a glance

A brisk, darkly comic epistolary confession keeps the plot propulsive and clear.