The Paper Tiger's Sameer Rahim explains: "The White Tiger reads like the first draft of a Bollywood screenplay (no romance or songs sadly). Every character is a cliché: the scheming servant, the corrupt politician, the alluring master's wife. The humour is bitter and unsubtle; the writing forgettable. It is, however, very easy to read — it should take most readers no more than a few hours. Unfortunately that's about as long as the book will stay with you."
Elsewhere in The Telegraph, readers are invited to sample an exclusive excerpt from the novel.
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