Aravinda Adiga’s Selection Day This novel is a cricket-themed beauty. It surpasses other beauties including 'The Chinaman' and other fictions over the last decade/5(). Selection Day is Adiga's most absorbing, big-hearted novel to date, and proves why "with his gripping, amusing glimpse into the contradictions and perils of modern India, Aravind Adiga has cemented his reputation as the preeminent chronicler of his country's messy present" (Newsweek). · Even though our national game is hockey, we live and breathe cricket. And Aravind Adiga's new novel Selection Day is centered around this passionate sport only. A mix of beating class hierarchy, rags to riches dreams, jealousies and parental pressure, Selection Day makes up /5.
Cricket is the balm that heals.". For the central characters in "Selection Day," Aravind Adiga's vibrant new novel, cricket is both balm and wound. Mohan Kumar, a chutney salesman by day. Book Review: 'Selection Day,' By Aravind Adiga Aravind Adiga's new novel centers on Manju, a boy from Mumbai, and his tyrannical father, who wants just one thing: To raise the world's best. Selection Day is Adiga's most absorbing, big-hearted novel to date and proves why "with his gripping, amusing glimpse into the contradictions and perils of modern India, Aravind Adiga has cemented his reputation as the preeminent chronicler of his country's messy present" (Newsweek).
Selection Day is a sports fiction novel written by Booker Prize winner Aravind Adiga. It was shortlisted along with four other writers for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. It tells the story of Mohan Kumar, a chutney seller who trains his two sons: Manju Kumar and Radha Krishna for Mumbai's under cricket team. For the central characters in “Selection Day,” Aravind Adiga’s vibrant new novel, cricket is both balm and wound. Aravinda Adiga’s Selection Day This novel is a cricket-themed beauty. It surpasses other beauties including 'The Chinaman' and other fictions over the last decade.
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