Funny Boy
Shyam Selvadurai
In this remarkable debut novel, a boy’s bittersweet passage to maturity and sexual awakening is set against escalating political tensions in Sri Lanka, during the seven years leading up to the 1983 riots. Arjie Chelvaratnam is a Tamil boy growing up in an extended family in Colombo. It is through his eyes that the story unfolds and we meet a delightful, sometimes eccentric cast of characters. Arjie’s journey from the luminous simplicity of childhood days into the more intricately shaded world of adults – with its secrets, its injustices, and its capacity for violence – is a memorable one, as time and time again the true longings of the human heart are held against the way things are.
Catégories:
Année:
2013
Editeur::
Emblem Editions
Langue:
english
Pages:
336
ISBN 10:
1551997193
ISBN 13:
9781551997193
ISBN:
B00B0LP46S
Fichier:
PDF, 1.13 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2013