Title In This White Tiger Between the Assassinations Between the Assassinations This is the dazzling second book from the winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize and Nibbies ''Author of the Year'' Aravind one of the summer''s most eagerly anticipated paperbacks and an Atlantic Superlead title. Nestling on India''s southern coast lies the town of Kittur. Ranging through the city''s streets and schoolyards, bedrooms and businesses, its inner workings and its outer limits, through the myriad and distinctive voices of its inhabitants, Aravind Adiga brings an entire world vividly White Tiger Meet Balram Halwai, the ''White Tiger'': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur and murderer. Balram, the White Tiger, was born in a backwater village on the River Ganges, the son of a rickshaw-puller. He works in a teashop, crushing coal and wiping tables, but nurses a dream of escape. When he learns that a rich village landlord needs a chauffeur, he takes his opportunity, and is soon on his way to Delhi behind the wheel of a Honda. Amid the cockroaches and call-centres, the 36,000,004 gods, the s