Summary
Adiga's style calls to mind the work of Munshi Premchand, that great Hindi prose stylist and chronicler of the nationalist movement, especially in passages like this: "A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank", but the "story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen".
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Getting and Spending
Fiction Getting and spending The White Tiger AravindAdiga Atlantic Books, 336pp, £12.99
One is surely tired of being informed that one had better resign oneself to the prospect of an Indian-run and/or Chinese-dominated world. Dreary old "sho...See the full content of this document
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