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...Ravi Mirchandani, who edited Adiga's book and was sitting beside him at the table, the win was especially sweet. The White Tiger was the first book he bought for Atlantic, which hired him in 2006 after he was fired from a job at Random House. The novel was shown to him by Adiga's agent, who insisted that he read it that night and make an almost instant decision about whether to bid for it. "I sat down with the manuscript and after the first six pages I was just so excited," Mirchandani said. "When you're reading...
...view of certain things, like what is the real India and what is the nature of poverty." Another of the judges, who asked not to be named, confided that it was "a very tricky choice" between Adiga's book and the judges' second favorite of the six shortlisted novels, Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture. As this judge saw it, Barry's novel was a great display of beautiful writing, while Adiga's novel was a masterful example of "crackling story-telling" and was "one of the most incredible books I've ever read." In the end, he said, Adiga...
...University of Birmingham, a generous grant to produce promotional CDs and a website that asks: "Why Study America?" The site features interviews with people enrolled in American-studies courses (one student says he's developed a "toolbox" to analyze cultural phenomena such as ripped jeans), useful factoids (the novel Moby Dick tells the story of the hunt for a whale, not a criminal), and a video that shows Chevy trucks traversing the U.S. to a background of nostalgic folk music...
...Random House just signed you on for your first novel. What will it be about...
...writing a novel harder than the previous short-essay format of your first two books...