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title: "Selection Day: A Novel"
brand: "aravind adiga"
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# Selection Day: A Novel

**Brand:** aravind adiga
**Price:** € 98.70
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- **What is this?** Selection Day: A Novel by aravind adiga
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Selection Day: A Novel

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Some pros, and some cons
  

*by P***C on Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2018*

Ok, I had this whole messy review written out. And I didn’t like any of it… So, I’m going to make this one simple.Selection Day: The story of two young men from the slums of Mumbai who are pushed by their father to become cricket stars.Pros:In depth look at youth sports (cricket)Relationships: Father and sons. Sibling Rivalry. Mentors/ Sponsors and athletes.A trip to Mumbai.Adiga’s style. Jumpy/ character exploration/ language.Themes of coming of age, emerging sexuality, sports.Cons:Adiga’s style can be dividing. If you liked White Tiger, you will be ok with this.Can meander at times, and the ending was a little flat.The language, especially the cricket/ sports idioms can be hard to follow.I picked this one up for several reasons: I really enjoyed Adiga’s first book, White Tiger. Selection Day is being turned in a Netflix series (I don’t know why that’s a magnet for me…). And it was on sale on Amazon.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    more than cricket
  

*by M***S on Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2018*

Selection Day is set in Mumbai (Bombay), India, where ‘cricket is every Indian boy’s dream.’ Science-obsessed Manjunath Kumar is fourteen years old, and almost as good a cricketer as his older brother Radha. He fears no-one except his stern cricket-obsessed father, offering cricketing advice.On selection day, when Manju is 16 years old, both brothers, Radha and Manju, were competing for a position on the team. What was Manju’s plan? There was father’s advice to get as many runs as possible. Their father has a favourite son, a special son, and the sons have a special obsession. For Manju, is it science or is it cricket? On selection day, Manju must face, not only the incoming balls trying to get him out, but also his life-changing decisions.If readers like the sport of cricket, they will like this novel of obsessions, dreams, family favourites, expectations, peer pressure, choices, dedication, love relationships. and wayward distractions. Its themes of brotherly competition, external circumstances, and paternal love are explored in a fascinating way, to make this an entertaining novel.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    but story meets a tragic end to show how all this passion gets wasted. Representation of unfulfilled life of the father laboring ...
  

*by C***A on Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2017*

Selection day is the third Arvid Adiga book I have read. Honestly, I wasn't sure to pick it up as I thought that he lost the literary touch from the first book, The White Tiger, that won him Pulitzer Prize when he wrote the second book The Last Man In the Tower.Selection day is a vindication of why Adiga won prize for his first book. The story, set in Mumbai, India is about two boys trying to make it big in the game of cricket. The story manifests several flavors and thought provoking literature (like Revenge is the capitalism of poor), but what stuck me the most was the character of penniless, overbearing father with a loveless life with only goal to ensure that his children succeed and not live the life of a "chutney seller" that he endures, but in the wake of doing so, he mentors them so closely that he not only takes cricket but all the other decisions for then (like restricting the boys to shave to avoid tampering with cricket hormones) This drives both the boys away from him, (the younger one completely out of sight) to the point that both don't even wish well for him.Tragedy is the theme of this novel. There is a portrayal of dire life of slums and how passion for a sport can be a panacea and can give hope in the most desperate times, but story meets a tragic end to show how all this passion gets wasted.Representation of unfulfilled life of the father laboring to earn money and shades of his unsuccessful attempts to earn respect in close relationships is touching. The coach's desire before dying to see the younger brother to play at a state level metaphors how life doesn't even give opportunities to say goodbye and allows one last momentAll is all a novel definitely worth reading, and in my opinion it has classic Adiga written all over it.

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