Selection day a novel

Manjunath Kumar is fourteen and living in a slum in Mumbai. He knows he is good at cricket 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 fac...

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Main Author: Adiga, Aravind
Format: Books Print Book
Published: New York : Scribner Book Company, 2017.
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Summary: Manjunath Kumar is fourteen and living in a slum in Mumbai. He knows he is good at cricket 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 doesn't know. Sometimes it even seems as though everyone has a clear idea of who Manju should be, except Manju himself. When Manju meets Radha's great rival, a mysterious Muslim boy privileged and confident in all the ways Manju is not, everything in Manju's world begins to change, and he is faced by decisions that will challenge his understanding of it, as well as himself.
Physical Description: 289 p.
ISBN: 9781501150845
1501150847
Author Notes: Aravind Adiga was born in India in 1974 and attended Columbia and Oxford universities. He is the author of the novels Amnesty ; Selection Day , now a series on Netflix; The White Tiger , which won the Man Booker Prize; and the story collection Between the Assassinations . He lives in Mumbai, India.