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The White Tiger

Written by: Aravind Adiga
Narrated by: Bindya Solanki
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British Book Awards, Author of the Year, 2009.

Man Booker Prize, Fiction, 2008.

Balram Halwai is the White Tiger - the smartest boy in his village. Too poor to finish school, he has to work in a teashop until the day a rich man hires him as a chauffeur, and takes him to live in Delhi. The city is a revelation. Balram becomes aware of immense wealth all around him, and realizes the only way he can become part of it is by murdering his master.

The White Tiger presents a raw and unromanticized India, both thrilling and shocking.

©2008 Aravind Adiga (P)2008 Oakhill Publishing Ltd Coming of Age Epistolary Genre Fiction Historical Literary Fiction Mystery World Literature

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"Dazzling...an Indian novel that explodes the cliches...It's a thrilling ride through a global power...Brimming with idiosyncrasy, sarcastic, cunning and often hilarious." ( The Independent)
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Wish the book was narrated by someone with an Indian accent. The narrator was not able to pronounce some basic india words.

Good story bad narration

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why select someone with a British accent to be the narrator. and then on top of it to make up ludicrous and caricaturish Indian accents for the characters. In any case the story is great and it a a good audio book to pick up as you won't get the ebook on the kindle store

great story. poor narration

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It's a superb story, very engagingly written by the author. But the narrator was a huge disappointment. No, I should actually say, she was an irritant. How could Audible choose a person who couldn't pronounce the most basic of Indian names and Indian language words to read this book? Just because the person has an Indian name doesn't mean they can read Indian names and Indian language words.

Superb story, very poor narration.

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I loved the story. Will definitely recommend this to fellow listeners. The narrator was exceptional. Kudos to Bindiya Solanki!

8 hours of joy!

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The story is good but the narration is really bad. It was very difficult to keep with her pronunciation.I am not talking about her English words pronunciation. All the Indian city names,indian names,street names were so badly pronounced that it became kind of annoying. Also her change of accent to a strange accent for other charecters was also really bad

Story is nice but bad narration

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