β Armstrong, J. A.
π Fiction
π
2017
π Bumbling Bard Creations - JA Armstrong Books
π English
β 132 KB
β¦ LIBER β¦
Selection Day
β Scribed by Aravind Adiga
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 183 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
From Aravind Adiga, the bestselling, Booker PrizeΒ-winning author of The White Tiger , a dazzling new novel about two brothers in a Mumbai slum who are raised by their obsessive father to become cricketing stars, and whose coming of age threatens their relationship, future, and sense of themselves.
Manjunath Kumar is fourteen and living in a slum in Mumbai. He knows he is good at cricket--if not as good as his older brother, Radha. He knows that he fears and resents his domineering and cricket-obsessed father, admires his brilliantly talented sibling, and is fascinated by curious scientific facts and the world of CSI. But there are many things, about himself and about the world, that he doesn't know. Sometimes it even seems as though everyone has a clear idea of who Manju should be, except Manju himself. When Manju begins to get to know Radha's great rival, a mysterious Muslim boy privileged and confident in all the ways Manju is not, everything in...
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