Book Summary
Selection Day is a coming-of-age novel set in Mumbai, centered on two brothers, Manju and Radha Kumar, who are groomed by their domineering father to become India’s next great cricket stars. Radha, the older brother, is confident and ambitious, while Manju—quiet, intelligent, and gifted—struggles under the weight of expectations he never chose. As they navigate the competitive and corrupt world of youth cricket, Manju grapples with his identity, his fascination with science, his complicated feelings toward a fellow young cricketer, and his desire to break free from his father’s control. The story examines the pressures of ambition, the commercialization of sport, and the tensions between personal dreams and imposed destinies. With sharp social commentary and emotional depth, Adiga portrays the complexities of growing up in modern India and the cost of chasing success at all costs.
About the Author:
Aravind Adiga is an Indian-Australian writer and journalist best known for his debut novel The White Tiger, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2008. Born in Chennai and raised partly in Australia, he studied at Columbia University and Oxford before working as a financial journalist for publications such as Time magazine. Adiga’s fiction often examines class, ambition, inequality, and the contradictions of contemporary India through sharp wit and bold storytelling. With Selection Day and his other works, he continues to explore the social and economic forces that shape individual lives, earning recognition as one of India’s most insightful modern novelists.
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