★★★★☆ Exciting as I expected. So raw, so angry, seem so nonchalant but has full of energy, just like today’s India and their youths. It’s so easy to dismiss India merely as a place to get enlightenment and exotic etc, but this is also the reality.
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The White Tiger
Aravind Adiga, 2008
336 pages
Read in 2021.04
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Netflix was starting the film, so I had to get the book first.
This was as exciting as I expected.
So raw, so angry, seem so nonchalant but has full of energy, just like today's India the world imagine.
It's so easy to dismiss India merely as a place to get enlightenment and exotic, but this is also the reality, it's where people live and try to go further than what their parents achieved, just like any other place in the world.
While it's raw and its people all tangled up, they know their places, like caste, it's in their skin.
It's similar to Japan in a sense that this is Asia, just that Japan doesn't have that big proportion of poor or extremely poor which makes this story more exciting and energetic.
As our protagonist predicts here, in his lifetime all white men die out and brown and yellow men rule the world - might not be that far from truth.
The Netflix film was also good, with Priyanka Chopra, as great as ever, of course it doesn't have the Bollywood dance or music but it has the energy, power and the different music to pump up the story.
🔽 Where to buy / Summary and more info 🔽
●●● Amazon.com (US) ●●●
The White Tiger: WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008
●●● Amazon.co.uk (UK) ●●●
The White Tiger: WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008
●●● Amazon.it (Italy) ●●●
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