Funny Boy
- ISBN-10
- 1551997193
- ISBN-13
- 9781551997193
- Series
- Funny Boy
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-01-29
- Publisher
- Emblem Editions
- Author
- Shyam Selvadurai
Description
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.
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