The White Tiger

阿拉文德·阿迪加一九七四年出生于印度海港城市马德拉斯，后移居澳大利亚。毕业后曾任《时代周刊》驻印度通讯记者，并为《金融时报》、《独立报》、《星期日泰晤士报》等英国媒体撰稿。现居孟买。《白老虎》是其处女作。

出版者:Free Press

作者:Aravind Adiga

页数:304

出版时间:2008-10-14

价格:GBP 11.47

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9781416562603

图书标签:印度布克奖小说英文原版Booker英文IndiaAravindAdiga

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Aravind Adiga's extraordinary and brilliant first novel takes the form of a series of letters to Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, from Balram Halwai, the Bangalore businessman who is the self-styled “White Tiger” of the title. Bangalore is the Silicon Valley of the subcontinent, and on the eve of a state visit by Jiabao, our entrepreneur Halwai wishes to impart something of the new India to the Chinese premier - “out of respect for the love of liberty shown by the Chinese people, and also in the belief that the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself through buggery, mobile phone usage and drug abuse”.

Halwai's lesson about the new India is drawn from the rags-to-riches story of his own life. For Halwai, the son of a rural rickshaw-puller, is from the “Darkness”: “Please understand, Your Excellency, that India is two countries in one: an India of Light, and an India of Darkness. The ocean brings light to my country. Every place on the map of India near the ocean is well-off. But the river brings darkness to India - the black river.”

The black river is the Ganges, beloved of the sari-and-spices tourist image of India. (“No! - Mr Jiabao, I urge you not to dip in the Ganga, unless you want your mouth full of faeces, straw, soggy parts of human bodies, buffalo carrion, and seven different kinds of industrial acids.”)

At first, this novel seems like a straightforward pulled-up-by-your-bootstraps tale, albeit given a dazzling twist by the narrator's sharp and satirical eye for the realities of life for India's poor. (“In the old days there were 1,000 castes...in India. These days, there are just two castes: Men with Big Bellies, and Men with Small Bellies.”) But as the narrative draws the reader further in, and darkens, it becomes clear that Adiga is playing a bigger game. For The White Tiger stands at the opposite end of the spectrum of representations of poverty from those images of doe-eyed children that dominate our electronic media - that sentimentalise poverty and even suggest that there may be something ennobling in it. Halwai's lesson in The White Tiger is that poverty creates monsters, and he himself is just such a monster.

读后感

i have been to india many times and stayed there for quite some time. i think i may have a fair view of what india may be like since in china or rest of the world, people may have two sharply contrasting points of view towards india: a giant moving fast wit...  

对于印度，我向来一无所知。 《白老虎》的叙事有点儿像小说版的A Slumdog Millionaire，一个没念过多少书，出身低级种姓的人如何成为了“企业家”。陆建德的后记里说，小说的内容不可全当做真，但是其中人性的真实与隐喻的力量又怎能让人视而不见呢？（顺说，我对小陆的印象真...  

一声低沉的咆哮吓得我立刻转过头去。一直黑狗在我身后转着圈，它的左屁股上有一块粉红色的皮肤在发亮——那是一个开放性的伤口，这只狗不停地扭动着身子，想咬那伤口，但是它的牙齿恰恰够不着。这只狗痛得快发疯了——它留着口水，企图要到那伤口，结果只是疯狂地转着毫无意义...  

开始读者本书的时候，是因为“企业家”“温总理”这几个词语而读的，其实全然无关。但是这本书并没有因此而让我失望。整本书虽然是断断续续一个礼拜才看完的，但是看得很顺。虽然书里面尽写了一些“种姓制度”“奴仆关系”“贫富差距”“政治黑暗”等等，但，真的，印度比想象...  

i have been to india many times and stayed there for quite some time. i think i may have a fair view of what india may be like since in china or rest of the world, people may have two sharply contrasting points of view towards india: a giant moving fast wit...  

用户评价

如果喜欢贫民窟的百万富翁，就会理解这本书

Ashok這角色的設定有點曖昧

家宝总理，你是否能从这只印度白老虎的血盆大口中听到来自中国底层社会的愤怒？中国大地上又有多少“社会企业家”正在酝酿着那致命的一击呢？

真实的印度

真实的印度