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Book title: The White Tiger Book Author: Aravind Adiga Publication Date: April 22, 2008 ISBN: 1-416-56259-1 The White Tiger is the debut novel of Indian writer Aravind Adiga. It won him the Man Booker prize in 2008. The novel is written as a series of letters to the Chinese premier from the main character of the story, Balram Halwai. Balram’s story is set in modern India, amid the backdrop of globalization, and tells of his climb out of poverty to become a successful entrepreneur. The contrast between the new India, a global economic power, and the life of rural poverty which is reality for the majority of Indians, is a major theme in this book. The book successfully portrays the India of reality and as such encompasses such themes as religious tension, familial loyalty and the difficult of returning to India after living abroad. The story is of a climb out of poverty but it is no conventional rags-to-riches story. This is not the success story for which Ba...

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known in short as the Booker Prize, is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel , written in the English language , by a citizen of either the Commonwealth of Nations , Ireland , or Zimbabwe .The winner of the Booker Prize is generally assured of international renown and success and, for this reason, the prize is of great significance for the book trade. 12. Life of Pi - Yann Martel -Canada - Winner in 2002 11. The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai - India - Winner in 2006 10. The Sea, the Sea -Iris Murdoch - Ireland/United Kingdom- Winner in 1978 9. Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey - Australia - winner in 1988 8. The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga - India - winner in 2008 7. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy -India - Winner in 1997 6. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje - Sri Lanka/Canada - winner in 1992 5. Possession: A Romance - A.S. Byatt - United Kingdom -Winner in 1990 4. The Remains of the Da...