Selection Day

A moving and beautifully observed novel, of adolescence, ambition and self-realization, of fathers and sons, set in contemporary Bombay, by the Man Booker Prize winning author of The White Tiger and Last Man in Tower. `Set in Mumbai, Adiga’s story of two cricketing brothers, divided by success and failure, holds up a mirror to the shattered dreams of a nation . . . Finely told, often moving, and intelligent . . . Adiga’s novel takes in class, religion and sexuality . . . Because Adiga is a novelist, and one who has grown in his art since his Booker Prize-winning debut, The White Tiger, he knows how to talk about all these matters through his characters and their compelling stories.’ Kamila Shamsie, Guardian `Selection Day is at its heart an engrossing and nuanced coming-of-age-novel, with the focus very much on the younger brother, the “complex one”, Manju . . . Intriguing and subtly developed . . . powerful.’ Sunday Times `Gripping. Which brother (if either) will be selected for cricket’s big time? Top-rate fiction from a young master.’ The Times `[Adiga] is not merely a confident storyteller but also a thinker, a skeptic, a wily entertainer, a thorn in the side of orthodoxy and cant.’ New York Times `Adiga seems boundlessly gifted . . . He has produced a nearly flawless novel, and further proof that he is among our finest contemporary novelists.’ San Francisco Chronicle `A bittersweet reflection on the limits of what we can select. Choice – that most enticing Western ideal – does not thrive everywhere equally . . . Adiga’s voice is so exuberant, his plotting so jaunty, that the sadness of this story feels as though it is accumulating just outside our peripheral vision.’ Washington Post