Friday, June 12, 2009

The White Tiger


A tale of a tiger - well no. Its a tale of a poor innocent young boy who goes on to become a rich murderer. I found the book very engrossing. The whole book is positioned as a long letter to the Chinese prime minister written over few nights. A story starts in the village, talks about things that made me think that it is based some 50-60 years ago. But soon with the mention of selfish political interests and lots of malls in Gurgaon I figured out that it is in fact today - very much our time. Very early in the book the author mentions that the nice hero kills his nice boss and the rest of the story continues. Thought you know that this killing might be somewhere in the climax you hang on to the book trying to figure out what prompts this nice driver to kill his nice boss.

A very engrossing book. I read it within a few working days.
And yes, if you are one of those with a car and a driver - it has a list of things a driver can do to cheat his boss :)