Aravind Adiga

Danny, an undocumented Sri Lankan immigrant is working as a cleaner and living out of a grocery storeroom in Sydney. For the last four years he has been trying to create a new identity for himself. One morning, he learns that his client Radha Thomas has been murdered. A jacket was left at the scene, which he believes belongs to another client, a doctor with whom Radha was having an affair. Suddenly Danny is confronted with a choice: Come forward as a witness and risk being deported? Or say nothing, and let justice go undone?

Balram Halwai is the White Tiger – the smartest boy in his village. Too poor to finish school, he works in a teashop until a rich man hires him as a chauffeur, and takes him to Delhi. Balram becomes aware of immense wealth all around him, and realises the only way he can become part of it is by murdering his master. Man Booker Prize Winner. X rated, contains graphic violence and explicit sex.