The White Tiger
Aravind Adiga • 2008
Devastation Rating
injustice literary fiction political trauma
Our Take
Balram Halwai writes a confession to the Chinese Premier and what he confesses is the entire architecture of class violence in India. The immigrant ambition here is murderous — literally. Adiga refuses you the comfort of a sympathetic protagonist. You understand him anyway. That's the point. The Rooster Coop, he calls it — the structure that keeps the chickens from fleeing even as the others are slaughtered.
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