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The Tiger’s Share

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Critics Review

Guha offers a wide, chaotic and morally ambiguous portrait of contemporary Delhi society . . . Its breadth and ambition - with even the most minor characters fleshed out, each bookshop or park or neighbourhood visited an opportunity for Guha to thicken the text with some historical, political context - has echoes of Zadie Smith's early maximalist style
Guardian
A brilliant conceit - far wider in its implications than it first seems - and a waspishly witty eye cast on the war between sisters and brothers in polluted, high-achieving Delhi
Francis Spufford
The Tiger's Share is a stylish and engaging tragi-comedy of manners, set against the backdrop of a collapsing environment. Keshava Guha is an astute and insightful observer of contemporary India
Amitav Ghosh, author of THE IBIS TRILOGY
The Tiger's Share is an extraordinary new kind of Indian novel in English, as attuned to life in contemporary New Delhi as to the choices ecological collapse eventually will force upon us all. It's also the story of two unforgettable families, told with a controlled emotional precision that only intensifies the power of the novel's shocking conclusion
Nell Freudenberger, author of THE NEWLYWEDS
Brilliantly rendered . . . Guha poignantly balances individual lives and threats of political and ecological disaster
Literary Review
Exciting young minds are a joy forever, and Guha is true superstar . . . destined for greatness
Amol Rajan
A novel of ideas crossed with a juicy family saga, this state-of-the-nation snapshot of contemporary India wittily anatomises the battle for resources - environmental, financial, social - in a clash between ambitious daughters and complacent sons
Guardian, Summer Reading
It is testament to Guha's adroit, understated authorial touch that we are never given conclusive answers to complex questions about patriotism, nationalism and how India's identity is changing, only a range of responses acted out through his characters
Guardian, paperback highlights
Author Keshava Guha
Narrator Nikki Patel
Duration 10 hours and 43 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781399813426
Format Audiobook
Publisher John Murray Press
Genre Family life fiction, Fiction: general and literary
Availability AU, GB, IE, US

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