From Aravind Adiga, the bestselling, Booker Prize--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 cricket 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