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。
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.
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...
评分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...
评分“印度不会发生革命,这个国家的人民仍然会在等待,等待别处过来的一场战争来解放他们。革命绝不会发生,每个人都必须创建自己的圣城” 我想这些话用来描述中国目前的现状也很准确。或许中国真的不需要改变什么,我们这些年轻人正在接受着目前的现实,试图适应这个社会。的确...
评分抱着好奇的心开始看这本书,起初对印度北部农村的一些陋习感到好笑,渐渐地,心情变得沉重,透过小说表面戏虐 的描述,我看到的是鸡笼般桎梏人性的压抑,穷苦大众也好,富商也罢,抑或高科技产业的从业人员,无不是生活在鸡笼中,耗费生命和智慧的挣扎。正如小说中提及的人们到...
评分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...
一口气读完,故事发展及其吸引人,作者用有点悲伤和无奈的口吻娓娓道来,让读者看到了另一面的印度。这一面不是从外国人角度能看到,所以才更加真实。
评分开头就很吸引眼球,角度新颖,整部小说都是写给温总理的一封长信,讲述一部个人传奇。中间稍微细碎逊色一点,但后半开始又吸引了,很想知道主角到底做了什么走到现在这一步。中间穿插的印度“特色”,虽然是小说,但我相信还是有事实依据的,印度应该确实是一个很糟糕的国家,the last place I wanna visit in the world....最后附录那些讨论和作者采访还挺发人深省的,有些问题真的很难回答,道德难题。 补录,于2016.7.20读完。
评分Just after turning the first few pages, i am absorbed and can't stopped reading it and saying it a great fun.
评分在多伦多的二手书店随机挑的。被开头的故事情节吸引。总是在他乡寻找故乡。
评分故事甚是引人入胜,但人物转变有些情节剧的感觉,另外故事写的太过sensational,还有就是对印度社会理解肤浅,这点从我对天朝的印证就能领会。只能算是了解印度的入门之作,解闷来看不错,大作却算不上。
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