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1. • • 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).
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   Is 'selection day' a good book?

   • There’s little “Jhumpa Lahiri stuff” in “Selection Day,” yet his characters manage to be soulful indeed. “Selection Day” is a cricket novel that maintains a running critique of that pastime. (“ Lunch break! Nothing that stops for lunch can be called a sport.”) It’s a book about fathers that has few good ones on display.

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   What is the novel 'Selection Day' about?

   • Selection Day by Aravind Adiga is a novel about Manju, a boy from Mumbai, and his tyrannical father, who wants just one thing: To raise the world's best cricketers. The novel is slower, sadder, and ultimately more moving, as it explores the theme of never testing the door.

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   Is selection day a pattern?

   • Selection Day, by Aravind Adiga, initially seems like it might fall into an expected or repetitive pattern. However, it's not the quick wrists, hooked and swooped nose, or pantherlike limbs of the protagonist that define him, but the love poems he writes about Manju that add an unexpected layer to the story.

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   Is 'The Selection' a good YA book to read?

   • When you’re looking for a book similar to 'The Selection' in the YA genre, you may also want to consider reading 'The Jewel'. Many fans of 'The Selection' enjoy this series due to its similarities, such as class divisions and the glittering facades of royalty.

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   Jan 3, 2017 · What do Indians want from their novelists? That question is taken up, like a scimitar, by a worldly cricket fanatic in “Selection Day,” Aravind Adiga’s powerful new novel.

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   Jun 16, 2016 · A mix of beating class hierarchy, rags to riches dreams, jealousies and parental pressure, Selection Day makes up for a brilliant read. The story of Selection day is about Mohan Kumar, a father who believes that his sons, Radha and Manju will one day become either Bradman or Tendulkar.

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   In Selection Day, a novel with cricket at its heart, Aravind Adiga has created complex and wonderfully-realised characters.

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   Apr 28, 2017 · A derisive critique of one of India’s greatest pastimes – cricket – and a powerful satire that deconstructs the deep-rooted ironies of India’s post-modern society, Selection Day is a fictional novel by Aravind Adiga, an Indo-Australian writer and journalist, appearing in paperback for the first time in September 2016.

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   Jan 8, 2017 · Selection Day is about cages: ones built for us, and the ones we build ourselves. Manju's own fear makes him a slave, but the bars to his cage came ready made. Each sentence flickers like a...

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   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).

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