Aravind Adiga
Indian novelist whose debut The White Tiger won the Man Booker Prize in 2008. His darkly satirical vision of India's social inequalities is rendered through a confessional narrator of savage wit. He is one of the most internationally celebrated contemporary Indian novelists.
Works
- The White TigerFormer driver becomes gangster in modern India, exposing corruption and class struggle
- Between the AssassinationsInterconnected stories of ordinary lives in small Indian town between political assassinations
- Last Man in TowerLast resident refuses to leave when developers demand evacuation in Mumbai high-rise
- Selection DayTwo brothers from poverty pursue cricket stardom in India with competing ambitions
- AmnestyUndocumented immigrant finds work, identity, and hope in contemporary America