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Chinaman
From author of Booker Prize 2022 winner The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
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One of the most acclaimed debuts of the year - a rumbustuous, brilliant novel about Sri Lanka, cricket and the search for a legendary sportsman
Discover the blazing debut novel from the Booker Prize winning author.
'A crazy ambidextrous delight' Michael Ondaatje
Where is Pradeep S. Mathew - spin bowler extraordinaire and 'the greatest cricketer to walk the earth'?
Retired sportswriter W. G. Karunasena is dying, and he wants to know.
W. G. will spend his final months drinking arrack, making his wife unhappy, ignoring his son and tracking down the mysterious Pradeep. On his quest he will also uncover a coach with six fingers, a secret bunker below a famous stadium, a Tamil Tiger warlord, and startling truths about Sri Lanka, cricket and himself.
'Bristling with energy and confidence' Sunday Times
Winner of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
Produktdetails
Erscheinungsdatum
05. April 2012
Sprache
englisch
Untertitel
From author of Booker Prize 2022 winner The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.
B-format paperback.
Sprache: Englisch.
Seitenanzahl
397
Autor/Autorin
Shehan Karunatilaka
Verlag/Hersteller
Produktart
kartoniert
Gewicht
293 g
Größe (L/B/H)
128/195/35 mm
Sonstiges
B-format paperback
ISBN
9780099555681
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The strength of the book lies in its energy, its mixture of humour and heartwrenching emotion, its twisting narrative, its playful use of cricketing facts and characters, and its occasional blazing anger about what Sri Lanka has done to itself. . . Guardian
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