Age Group: Adults

Description:

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga is a darkly comic, Booker Prize-winning debut set in modern India. Balram Halwai — the son of a rickshaw puller, raised in rural poverty — refuses to accept the fate that caste and circumstance have mapped out for him. Exceptionally bright, he claws his way up to become a chauffeur for a wealthy Delhi family, before making a far more drastic and irreversible leap toward freedom. Narrated through a series of letters to the Chinese Premier, Balram's story is equal parts confession, satire, and social commentary — exposing the vast chasm between India's glittering ambitions and its deeply entrenched inequalities. Wickedly funny yet deeply unsettling, this is a bold, unforgettable portrait of ambition, survival, and the price of breaking free.