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Aravind Adiga

Aravind Adiga
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Aravind Adiga

Aravind Adiga was born in India in 1974 and attended Columbia and Oxford universities. A former correspondent for Time magazine, he has also been published in the Financial Times. He lives in Mumbai, India.

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The White Tiger has won an award
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Hindustan Times, January 27, 2012
...to modernise it. Thirty-three years after its publication, Parva dazzles: its strangeness seems fresh, and its originality permanent. Aravind Adiga is the author of The White Tiger and Last Man In Tower. SL Bhyrappa was the recepient of the 2010...
Ezine Mark, January 18, 2012
...Battery (2008) Smack (2008) Last Christmas in Bandra (2008) The Elephant (2008) The White Tiger In this novel, Aravind Adiga provides an unglamorous portrait of India.It reveals the corruption and servitude ingrained in the Indian society. It revolves...
The Statesman, January 13, 2012
...of Wealth. Ironically, it also depicts the shift from the Light of Innocence to the Darkness of Corruption. Aravind Adiga, skillfully weaves the contemporary issues of corruption, globalization and religious intolerance into the main plot of the story....
East Greenwich Patch, January 9, 2012
...Library Book Club meeting: Under discussion for today’s meeting is White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. All are welcome. The meeting starts at 1 p.m. Home games: The Boys Basketball team goes up against Exeter-West Greenwich tonight at 7 p.m. at the high...
East Greenwich Patch, January 4, 2012
...00 pm The Book Club will meet from 1:00pm to 2:00pm to discuss White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. Website: http://www.eastgreenwichlibrary.org/ Phone: 401-884-9510 Price: $0...
Tennessean, December 31, 2011
...King, and the result is a blockbuster novel filled with suspense and heart. "Last Man in Tower" by Aravind Adiga This pulsing tale about conflict in modern Mumbai proves that Adiga's astonishing gifts as a writer have only grown more powerful since he...
Hindustan Times, December 29, 2011
...The year 2011 saw a lot on the writing front but prominent writers like Aravind Adiga, TabishKhair and Manu Joseph were also reading a lot. “I’ve enjoyed “The Essential Tagore,” an anthology published by the Harvard University Press, which has...
APOOO, October 3, 2011
...Goat Woman of Largo Bay Gillian Royes Hand Me Down by Lloyd Jones Last Man in Tower by Aravind Adiga Makeda by Randall Robinson My Soul to Take by Tananarive Due Nairobi Heat by Mukoma Wa Ngugi Paris Noire by Francine Thomas The River of Smoke by...
American Consumer News, October 1, 2011
...available as a digital audiobook from Audible.com. The title, provided by Random House Audio and authored by Aravind Adiga, has also become an American Consumer News favorite.. The digital audiobook Last Man in Tower, narrated by Sam Dastor, has received...
News: Datablog | guardian.co.uk, September 28, 2011
...The Man Booker prize 2011 shortlist - will winning guarantee a boost in sales? Novels on the Man Booker Prize 2011 shortlist are experiencing a Booker 'bump' in sales, as our latest data shows. AD Miller's Snowdrops is the success story of this year's...
The Rumpus.net, September 25, 2011
...infographic study of “Conspiracy Gothic” films. Rubbish and Blazing Light — Erin Gilbert reviews Last Man In Tower, Aravind Adiga’s follow up to White Tiger . Our Conservations Cold-Pressed — Tasha Cotter reviews Lovely Asunder , a poetry...
News: Datablog | guardian.co.uk, September 19, 2011
...The Man Booker prize 2011 shortlist - will winning guarantee a boost in sales? Novels on the Man Booker Prize 2011 shortlist are experiencing a Booker 'bump' in sales, as our latest data shows. The shortlist was released at the beginning of the month,...
GOOD, August 5, 2011
...others’ works of art deals with people critically analyzing his own.   Last Man in Tower (September) By Aravind Adiga 400 pages. Knopf. $18.95 Adiga, who won the 2008 Man Booker Prize for White Tiger, is back this year with a novel that seems...
Beattie's Book Blog - unofficial ho, July 27, 2011
...Child (Picador) and listed "notable omissions" Justin Cartwright, Ali Smith, A L Kennedy, Andrew Miller, Anne Enright and Aravind Adiga.The Daily Mail reported the Daily Telegraph's angle on the story, which was chair of judges Stella Rimington's fear...