Selection Day

''Novel of the year was Aravind Adiga’s Selection Day . . . Cricket never fails to bring out the best in novelists . . . and this is a fine study of the very different fates of two Indian boys ble ...

''Novel of the year was Aravind Adiga’s Selection Day . . . Cricket never fails to bring out the best in novelists . . . and this is a fine study of the very different fates of two Indian boys blessed with supreme talent. Everything (the dialogue, psychological analysis, social portrayal) is done in a wonderful pacy narrative style.’ – Declan Kiberd, The Irish Times ‘Books of the Year’From the Booker Prize winning author of The White Tiger''The most exciting novelist writing in English today'' – A. N. WilsonManjunath Kumar is fourteen. He knows he is good at cricket – if not as good as his eld