The White Tiger by Aravind AdigaMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
The grittiest, most revealing book I've read yet about India. I'm fascinated by the place. And especially this book, which I think has a striking foundation of truth wrapped in the fiction. The idea of servitude, of a whole nation built on it, is the central tenet. Crushing poverty, diabolical corruption, excess wealth... all just daily players in the game. The book is very dark, but casually so. As it's written in the form of a letter to the Chinese premiere, a treatise on entrepreneurship that the main character thinks a Communist leader needs, it has great satirical value as well.
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