Aravind Adiga has written this novel (276 pages in paperback) in the first person of an Indian servant to a wealthy Indian. It won the Man Booker prize of 2008 (but don’t all published books these days win some prize ?). As such it is a witty or sarcastic criticism of many of the problems in India: poverty, corruption, class divisions, etc. The book pretends to be a succession of letters that “The White Tiger” (the name the protagonist assigns to himself) has written to the Premier of China to explain the unfortunate culture of India. If anything, the theme is that of an individual brain-washed into accepting his “inferiority” who fights to rid himself of that image. At times outrageous, funny, violent, call this merely an entertaining read.