6/9/2023 0 Comments The white tiger author![]() ![]() But while Hamid’s protagonist Changez becomes defensive and parochial about his identity, fiercely rejecting the other side, Balram decides to bridge the divide between himself, a lower-class man, and the rich “masters” in front of whom he has so far been grovelling. But Balram has other, darker revelations to make about his country, the sort that a visiting dignitary would be shielded from.Ī deeper connection between The Reluctant Fundamentalist and The White Tiger is that both books are about men who become restless and discontented as they learn about the huge gap that separates the world they come from and the world they aspire to (in the first book the gap is cultural, in the second it’s one of class), and how they are perceived by the privileged members of that other world. ![]() In The White Tiger, the narrator is a man named Balram Halwai, who introduces himself as a Bangalore-based entrepreneur his epistolary narrative is addressed to no less than the Chinese Premier, Wen Jiabao, who is visiting India to learn about how business is conducted in this large, “shining” democracy. ![]() That novella took the form of a (possibly imaginary) monologue directed by the narrator, a Pakistani who has returned home from the US, to an American tourist in Lahore. The jacket of Aravind Adiga’s debut novel The White Tiger carries a blurb by Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid, and reading the book it struck me that the narrative framework is similar to that of Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist. ![]()
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