Selection Day
Aravind Adiga
Scribner
From Aravind Adiga, the bestselling, Booker Prize&#173;&#8211;winning author of <i>The White Tiger</i>, a dazzling new novel about two brothers in a Mumbai slum who are raised by their obsessive father to become cricketing stars, and whose coming of age threatens their relationship, future, and sense of themselves.<BR>Manjunath Kumar is fourteen and living in a slum in Mumbai. He knows he is good at cricket&#8212;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 <i>CSI</i>. 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 begins to get to know Radha's great rival, a mysterious Muslim boy privileged and confident in all the ways Manju is not, everything in...</BR>