The Man Booker Prize Winner 2008
Narrated by Balram, a self-styled "entrepreneur" who has murdered his employer,
the book follows his progress from child labourer, via humiliation as a servant
and driver, to a mysterious new life in Bangalore. Balram himself is an enticing
figure, whose reasons for murder become completely understandable by the end,
but even more impressive is the nitty-gritty of Indian life that Adiga unearths:
the corruption, the class system, the sheer petty viciousness.