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Chinaman: A Novel

  • Author: Shehan Karunatilaka
  • ISBN 10: 022409145X
  • ISBN 13: 9780224091459
  • Release: May 16, 2011
  • Format: Hardcover (432 pages)
  • List Price: $29.00
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    List Price: $29.00

    Tags: Literature & Fiction, Contemporary,

    Book Description:
    Retired sportswriter WG Karunasena is dying. He will spend his final months drinking arrack, making his wife unhappy, ignoring his son and tracking down Pradeep S. Mathew, a spin bowler who has mysteriously disappeared and who WG considers 'the greatest cricketer to walk the earth'. On his quest to find this unsung genius, WG uncovers 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. Ambitious, playful and strikingly original, "Chinaman" is a novel about cricket and Sri Lanka - and the story of modern day Sri Lanka through its most cherished sport. Hailed by the Gratiaen Prize judges as 'one of the most imaginative works of contemporary Sri Lankan fiction', it is an astounding book.

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