The White Tiger

In this darkly comic d?but novel set in India, Balram, a chauffeur, murders his employer, justifying his crime as the act of a "social entrepreneur." In a series of letters to the Premier of China, in anticipation of the leader's upcoming visit to Balram's homeland, the chauffeur recounts his transformation from an honest, hardworking boy growing up in "the Darkness" - those areas of rural India where education and electricity are equally scarce, and where villagers banter about local elections