The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

November 8, 2014 by Christina

Fiction — audiobook. Read by John Lee. Tantor Media, 2008. 8 hours, 6 minutes. Library copy. Winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize, Adiga’s novel centers on Balram Halwai as he writes a letter to the visiting official from China relating his own life as an example of the entrepreneurial spirit possessed by the people of India that China must emulate to continue growing their economy. Over the course of seven nights, Balram explains how he established himself as an […]

Categories: 2014 Reads, Asia, Audiobook, Fiction, India • Tags: Aravind Adiga, John Lee

Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga

October 26, 2011 by Christina

Fiction — print. Free Press, 2010. Originally published 2008. 342 pgs. Purchased. The title of Adiga’s novel is quite intriguing: Between the Assassinations? Between which assassinations? But it’s really the cover of this novel that caught my attention. The bright yellow cover with pink font seems to even poke fun at the seriousness of the title. The novel is set in Kittur, India, a city where only 89 of its 193,432 residents declare themselves to be without religion or caste. […]

Categories: 2011 Reads, Asia, Fiction, India • Tags: Aravind Adiga