How long does it take to read The White Tiger?
Aravind Adiga
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga takes about 5 hours 52 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 52 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2008. 320 pages, about 88,000 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 52 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Balram Halwai, a village boy from rural India, tells his life story in a darkly funny letter addressed to the Chinese Premier. Born into poverty as a rickshaw puller's son, he is pulled out of school and put to work in a teashop, where he picks up what he can about how the country runs. He becomes a driver for a wealthy landlord's family and follows them to Delhi, where corruption and the gulf between rich and poor surround him. The novel explores caste, class and globalized India's struggle for freedom.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: Fiction, mystery & detective, general, India, fiction, Poor, Fiction, Ambition, Social conditions
