NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE | Winner of the Booker Prize

“This is the authentic voice of the Third World, like you've never heard it before.” —John Burdett, author of Bangkok 8

The debut novel from the author of Amnesty and Selection Day Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger is a darkly comic and unflinching look at modern India’s caste system, poverty, corruption, and ambition.

At the heart of the novel is Balram Halwai, the so-called “white tiger”—a rare creature who rises against the odds. Born in a poor Indian village, Balram becomes a driver for a wealthy family in Delhi before reinventing himself as a self-made Bangalore entrepreneur. As he recounts his journey in a letter to the visiting president of China, Balram exposes the contradictions of Indian society, where deep-rooted traditions of servitude and inequality collide with the promise of global business and outsourcing.