Funny Boy

  • Funny Boy
    By 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.

  • Funny Boy: A Novel
    By Shyam Selvadurai

    Refreshing, raw, and poignant, Funny Boy is an exquisitely written, compassionate tale of a boy's coming-of-age that quietly confounds expectations of love, family, and country as it delivers the powerful message of staying true to one's ...

  • Funny Boy: A Novel in Six Stories
    By Shyam Selvadurai

    'An extraordinarily powerful, deeply moving novel' Amitav Ghosh NOW A MAJOR FILM ON NETFLIX 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 ...

  • Funny Boy: A Novel
    By Shyam Selvadurai

    Funny Boy is the debut of an extraordinary new voice in literary fiction. Set in Sri Lanka, it is a haunting novel about a boy growing up within an extended...

  • Funny Boy: Penguin Modern Classics Edition
    By 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.

  • Funny Boy: The Lost Keys
    By Viktor Ivankovich

    Funny Boy finds out that his family is selling their house and he doesn't want to move.

  • Funny Boy: A Critical Companion

    Funny Boy: A Critical Companion