In 2011 he produced Last Man in Tower, a state-of-the-nation novel in which one righteous man, the long-time resident of a crumbling Mumbai tower block, stands up against the developers and gentrifiers, representatives of the money-obsessed new India trying to wipe away the old. They had been written before the novel and many were set in Mangalore, the coastal town in south-west India in which he had grown up. The year after winning the prize, Adiga published a set of linked short stories called Between the Assassinations. I was frightened the White Tiger would eat me up too.” Once you have written a book like The White Tiger it’s very hard to escape from the shadow of it. “I had come out of complete obscurity, and at first I found it hard to deal with the fact I was a published writer. “ The White Tiger didn’t just win the Booker, it was a bestseller,” says Adiga.
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