‘The White Tiger’ Short Book Review
An innovative cross between a Dickens novel and ‘Crime and Punishment’ (without the moral / psychological quandry of the latter being at the forefront) ‘The White Tiger’ is the black as coal and worryingly humourous story from childhood to success of a man from the Indian “darkness”. How true to life the story depicted is might be another matter (it is fiction after all) but the themes have a familiar air from English novels of the growth of cities during the industrial revolution and the writing is always believeable, whether depicting down trodden small village life or the habits of call centre workers servicing our own convinience lifestyle. The fact that practically no one in the book acts in anything but their own self interest may grate on the reader depending on their own world view but it hardly comes across as unrealistic.
The author achieves what few do and you are rarely if ever skim-reading passages waiting for a dull or annoying sub plot to be resolved. You’ll most likely read to the conclusion as quickly as you can.
