This work, which won the Man Booker Prize for 2008 - turned out to be quite disappointing -and horribly skewed. True, it is very well written, and is highly readable. But substance matters more than style.Here is why Arvind Adiga is not the modern Gorky: many of the experiences he details in the novel can not be possibly his own. I do not believe he ever rally worked as an tea server in one of the most backward parts of India, among other things. So when an author interprets other people's experineces instead of his own, there us always the greats risk of misinterpreting the facts. And I am afraid that the white tiger misinterprets a lot of facts about modern India.
But I am Also quite happy about this book, because it is a good attempt to describe one part f India. And good efforts are worth a good round of applause at all times. Like all novels about a society, this is open to a huge number of critisms - remember to read this with a view to the reality that is India -a reality no author in history has ever been able to capture in one lifetime, let alone one volume.
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