Shelf life: Looking at secular books
So another Indian writer has won the Man Booker Prize. Like the Booker judges, I’ve a keen appetite for Indian literature, though whether for the exotic ‘samosas and saris’ or the fresh writing I’m not quite sure.
THE WHITE TIGER
By Aravind Adiga
Atlantic Books. 322 pages. £12.99
ISBN 978-1-84354-720-4