Selection Day: A Novel

Selection Day: A Novel

AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A NEW YORK TIMES and WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK

From Aravind Adiga, the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger, a â€œferociously brilliantâ€ (Slate) novel about two brothers in a Mumbai slum who are raised by their crazy, obsessive father to be star cricket players that â€œoffers the sound of a serious and nervy writer working at the top of his formâ€ (The New York Times).

Manjunath Kumar is fourteen and living in a slum in Mumbai. He knows he is good at cricketâ€”if not as good as his older brother, Radha. He knows that he fears and resents his domineering and cricket-obsessed father, admires his brilliantly talented sibling, and is fascinated by curious scientific facts and the world of CSI. But there are many things, about himself and about the world, that he doesnâ€™t know. Sometimes it even seems as though everyone has a clear idea of who Manju should be, except Manju himself. When Manju meets Radhaâ€™s great rival, a mysterious Muslim boy privileged and confident in all the ways Manju is not, everything in Manjuâ€™s world begins to change, and he is faced by decisions that will challenge his sense of self and of the world around him.

Filled with unforgettable characters from across Indiaâ€™s social strataâ€”the old scout everyone calls Tommy Sir; Anand Mehta, the big-dreaming investor; Sofia, a wealthy, beautiful girl and the boysâ€™ biggest fanâ€”Selection Day â€œbrings a family, a city, and an entire country to scabrous and antic lifeâ€ (Chicago Tribune).

Aravind Adigaâ€™s â€œvoice is so exuberant, his plotting so jaunty, that the sadness of this story feels as though it is accumulating just outside our peripheral visionâ€ (The Washington Post). It is, simply, â€œextraordinaryâ€ (The Atlantic).
Country USA
Brand Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781501150845
ReleaseDate 2017-06-06
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781501150845

Country	USA
Brand	Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781501150845
ReleaseDate	2017-06-06
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781501150845

Selection Day: A Novel

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