The White Tiger: A Novel (豆瓣)

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作者: Aravind Adiga

副标题: A Novel (Man Booker Prize)
ISBN: 9781416562603
页数: 304
定价: USD 14.00
出版社: Free Press
装帧: Paperback
出版年: 2008-10-14

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　　Aravind Adiga's extraordinary and brilliant first novel takes the form of a series of letters to Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, from Balram Halwai, the Bangalore businessman who is the self-styled “White Tiger” of the title. Bangalore is the Silicon Valley of the subcontinent, and on the eve of a state visit by Jiabao, our entrepreneur Halwai wishes to impart something of the... (展开全部) 　　Aravind Adiga's extraordinary and brilliant first novel takes the form of a series of letters to Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, from Balram Halwai, the Bangalore businessman who is the self-styled “White Tiger” of the title. Bangalore is the Silicon Valley of the subcontinent, and on the eve of a state visit by Jiabao, our entrepreneur Halwai wishes to impart something of the new India to the Chinese premier - “out of respect for the love of liberty shown by the Chinese people, and also in the belief that the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself through buggery, mobile phone usage and drug abuse”.
　　Halwai's lesson about the new India is drawn from the rags-to-riches story of his own life. For Halwai, the son of a rural rickshaw-puller, is from the “Darkness”: “Please understand, Your Excellency, that India is two countries in one: an India of Light, and an India of Darkness. The ocean brings light to my country. Every place on the map of India near the ocean is well-off. But the river brings darkness to India - the black river.”
　　The black river is the Ganges, beloved of the sari-and-spices tourist image of India. (“No! - Mr Jiabao, I urge you not to dip in the Ganga, unless you want your mouth full of faeces, straw, soggy parts of human bodies, buffalo carrion, and seven different kinds of industrial acids.”)
　　At first, this novel seems like a straightforward pulled-up-by-your-bootstraps tale, albeit given a dazzling twist by the narrator's sharp and satirical eye for the realities of life for India's poor. (“In the old days there were 1,000 castes...in India. These days, there are just two castes: Men with Big Bellies, and Men with Small Bellies.”) But as the narrative draws the reader further in, and darkens, it becomes clear that Adiga is playing a bigger game. For The White Tiger stands at the opposite end of the spectrum of representations of poverty from those images of doe-eyed children that dominate our electronic media - that sentimentalise poverty and even suggest that there may be something ennobling in it. Halwai's lesson in The White Tiger is that poverty creates monsters, and he himself is just such a monster.　　

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A different India
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It's absolutely a blockbuster! Aravind Adiga is an extrodinary narrator! The White Tiger much better story-telling than "The Alchemist", rich of hooks, ir...... (1回应)

2009-11-15

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But isn't it likely that everyone who counts in this world, including our prime minister (including you, Mr Jiabao), has killed someone or other on their way to......

2009-09-03

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其实，如果某个中国作家有勇气从社会底层人的角度写一本关于现在中国的小说，结果会同样令人震惊。但是，能用英语创作的大部分是海外作家，和中国的现实脱离太久，要么不停地翻陈芝麻烂谷子，要么就故弄玄虚玩文字游戏。而用中文创作的，要么躲在象牙塔里玩自我欣赏，小资情调，或不能真正触到痛处的表面文章；要么就不知道躲到哪里去悲叹了。