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Chinaman: From author of Booker Prize 2022 winner The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
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Discover the blazing debut novel from the Booker Prize winning author.’A crazy ambidextrous delight’ Michael OndaatjeWhere 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 TimesWinner of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
Additional information
| Weight | 0.287 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.5 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 416 |
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| Year Published | 2012-4-5 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0099555689 |
| About The Author | Shehan Karunatilaka is the multi-award winning author of two novels. He won the Commonwealth Book Prize and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature for his debut novel, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew. He won the Booker Prize 2022 for his second novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. In addition to his novels he has written rock songs, screenplays and travel stories. |
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… |
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| Other text | Carries real weight…a mixture of, say, CLR James, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Fernando Pessoa and Sri Lankan arrack…essential to anyone with a taste for maverick genius |
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