Aravind Adiga's Booker Prize–winning book, The White Tiger, said Stuart Jeffries in the Guardian online, is already causing offense in the author’s homeland for its “defiantly unglamorous portrait of India's economic miracle.” It’s not surprising—it makes Salman Rushdie's 1981 Booker-winning “chronicle of post-Raj India,” Midnight's Children, seem like a feel-good story.
That’s why The White Tiger is an important book, said MeriNews.com, especially “for those of us in India.” It “holds a mirror” to our “corrupt” system, where policemen and politicians “take bribes” and “the division between the rich and the poor” is extremely wide. Adiga’s Booker Prize is “well deserved.”
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