Aravind Adiga
Selection Day
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'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 .…
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'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
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5098-0649-2
- EAN: 9781509806492
- Produktnummer: 22483073
- Verlag: Pan macmillan Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.7 cm x D2.3 cm 251 g
- Gewicht: 251
Über den Autor
Aravind Adiga was born in 1974 in Madras (now Chennai) and grew up in Mangalore in the south of India. He was educated at Columbia University in New York and Magdalen College, Oxford. His articles have appeared in publications including the New Yorker, the Sunday Times, the Financial Times, and the Times of India. His first novel, The White Tiger, won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2008. His second novel, Last Man in Tower, was published in 2011.Praise for Aravind Adiga:'Adiga is a real writer - that is to say, someone who forges an original voice and vision' Sunday Times'Beautifully done . . . As honest a book as it is entertaining: funny and engaging' John Burnside, The Times (Last Man In Tower)'Adiga achieves in a dozen pages what many novels fail to do in hundreds: convincingly render individual desire, disappointment and survival . . . Between the Assassinations commands attention from beginning to end' San Francisco Chronicle'Blazingly savage and brilliant . . . Not a single detail in this novel rings false or feels confected' Neel Mukherjee, Sunday Telegraph (The White Tiger)
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