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Akash Kapur thinks its falls down on characterisation:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/books/review/Kapur-t.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/books/review/Kapur-t.html
A Booker Prize winning novel must be so? No, it doesn't. At the end of the day it's just a book chosen, usually by compromise, by a small committee who can't agree on what the best of those they've shortlisted is. So they come down to second best. ("All agreed? No. Okay, then what's third best?")The white tiger is really very fantastic realistic novel by arvind. Btw a booke prize winner novel must be so.
Amitava kumar , here ( Hindu Literary Review dt 02 Nov 2008) on The White Tiger.
For a novel that is supposed to be a portrait of the ?real? India, The White Tiger comes across as curiously inauthentic. Is it a novel from one more outsider, presenting cynical anthropologies to an audience that is not Indian?
The Hindu : Literary Review : On Adiga?s The White Tiger
...between the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984 and
the assassination of Ravi Gandhi in 1991 in the small
town of Kittur on the Arabian Sea. We meet a dozen or
more citizens from the lowliest caste to the middle class
to the politicians of Kittur. The stories are affecting
and poignant, often funny as well