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  • By: Aravind Adiga
  • Narrated by: Kerry Shale
  • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (62 ratings)

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The White Tiger

By: Aravind Adiga
Narrated by: Kerry Shale
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Meet Balram Halwal, the 'White Tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells his story....

Born in a village in the dark heart of India, the son of a rickshaw puller, Balram is taken out of school by his family and put to work in a tea shop. As he crushes coal and wipes tables, he nurses a dream of escape, of breaking away from the banks of Mother Ganga, into whose murky depths have seeped the remains of a hundred generations.

His big chance comes when a rich village landlord hires him as a chauffeur for his son, his daughter-in-law, and their two Pomeranian dogs. From behind the wheel of a Honda, Balram first sees Delhi.

.The city is a revelation. Amid the cockroaches and call centres, the 36,000,004 gods, the slums, the shopping malls and the crippling traffic jams, Balram's reeducation begins. Caught between his instinct to be a loyal son and servant and his desire to better himself, he learns of a new morality at the heart of a new India.

As the other servants flick through the pages of Murder Weekly, Balram begins to see how the tiger might escape his cage. For surely any successful man must spill a little blood on his way to the top.

The White Tiger is a tale of two Indias. Balram's journey from the darkness of village life to the light of entrepreneurial success is utterly amoral, brilliantly irreverent, deeply endearing and altogether unforgettable.

©2008 Aravind Adiga (P)2008 Orion Publishing Group

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Why so much skipping?

The acting by Kerry Shale is great, but I just don't understand why so many paragraphs and pages were skipped. It does make it flow better but if you are reading and listening at the same time it can be very hard to find where he skipped to. Apart from that it was very good

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Slow, but good

For this one, I found 1.65x speed was good for me, but I believe you should bump it to atleast 1.20x speed for a comfortable listen.

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Compelling

Given that this is written in the first person this is the best way to “read” this book.
A wonderful compelling story.

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