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Selection Day

Written by: Aravind Adiga
Narrated by: Sartaj Garewal
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From the author of the prize-winning title The White Tiger comes a compelling and entertaining coming-of-age story.

Manjunath Kumar is 14. He knows he is good at cricket - if not as good as his elder brother, Radha. He knows that he fears and resents his domineering and cricket-obsessed father, admires his brilliantly talented sibling and is fascinated by the world of CSI and by curious and interesting scientific facts. But there are many things, about himself and about the world, that he doesn't know.

Sometimes it seems as though everyone around him has a clear idea of who Manju should be except Manju himself. When Manju begins to get to know Radha's great rival, a boy as privileged and confident as Manju is not, everything in Manju's world begins to change, and he is faced with decisions that will challenge both his sense of self and of the world around him....

©2016 Aravind Adiga (P)2016 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Coming of Age Family Life Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Urban
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Great story. I like Adiga's writing. it's immersive. it's difficult to not fall for Manju.

The audible narration on the other hand is a different story!
The accent is... what was that accent? Names of places, names The Hindi, Kannada. ALL BUTCHERED. It distracts you from the setting. A good narration elevates the material.

Narration is horrendous!

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