This year's Man-Booker Prize, reserved for authors hailing from the Commonwealth, was awarded to Aravind Adiga for his debut novel, The White Tiger. The book is written as a series of letters from a one-time Indian taxi driver to the Premier of China with the intention of imparting to him lessons in entrepreneurship and democracy. The White Tiger has been lauded for its narrative vitality as well as its unflinching look at the wealth disparity among the people of "rising" India. Of course, we also stock the 2007 winner, The Gathering, by Anne Enright. An Irish family epic, the book records the travails of the Hegarty clan via middle-aged sister Veronica as she deals with the drowning death of an elder brother, Liam.
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Across the Pond
This year's Man-Booker Prize, reserved for authors hailing from the Commonwealth, was awarded to Aravind Adiga for his debut novel, The White Tiger. The book is written as a series of letters from a one-time Indian taxi driver to the Premier of China with the intention of imparting to him lessons in entrepreneurship and democracy. The White Tiger has been lauded for its narrative vitality as well as its unflinching look at the wealth disparity among the people of "rising" India. Of course, we also stock the 2007 winner, The Gathering, by Anne Enright. An Irish family epic, the book records the travails of the Hegarty clan via middle-aged sister Veronica as she deals with the drowning death of an elder brother, Liam.
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I listened to White Tiger on audio and the reader is WONDERFUL.
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