Shyam Selvadurai

Funny Boy (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel in Six Stories

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'An extraordinarily powerful, deeply moving novel' Amitav Ghosh

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In the world of his large family - affluent Tamils living in Colombo - Arjie is an oddity, a 'funny boy' who prefers dressing as a girl to playing cricket with his brother.

But as Arjie comes to terms with his own homo-sexuality and with the racism of the society in which he lives, Sri Lanka is plunged into civil war as fighting between the army and the Tamil Tigers gradually begins to encroach on the family's comfortable life. Sporadic acts of violence flare into full scale riots and lead, ultimately, to tragedy.

Written in clear, simple prose, Shyam Selvadurai's first novel is masterly in its mingling of the personal and political.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NEEL MUKHERJEE

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781409044345
• Artikelnr.: 39216978

Autorenporträt

Shyam Selvadurai was born in 1965 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He left Sri Lanka after the 1983 riots in Colombo and settled with his family in Canada. He lives in Toronto.