Manjunath Kumar is fourteen. He knows he is good at cricket - if not as good as his elder brother Radha. He knows that he fears and resents his domineering and cricket-obsessed father, admires his brilliantly talented sibling and is fascinated by the world of CSI and by curious and interesting scientific facts. But there are many things about himself and about the world that he doesn't know... Sometimes it seems as though everyone around him has a clear idea of who Manju should be, except Manju himself

Booker-prize winner Aravind Adiga is back with a page-turner of a novel set in the world of cricket in Mumbai.

Aravind Adiga was born in Chennai in 1974. After studying English literature at Columbia University in New York and Magdalen College, Oxford University, he worked as a journalist: his articles have appeared in the Financial Times (U.K.) and Time magazine. He lives in Mumbai, India. The White Tiger is his first novel