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Chinaman
Shehan Karunatilaka
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Description for Chinaman
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 31. Weight in Grams: 390.
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099555681
SKU
9780099555681
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Shehan Karunatilaka
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, ... Read more
Reviews for Chinaman
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
Carries real weight...a mixture of, say, CLR James, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Fernando Pessoa and Sri Lankan arrack...essential ... Read more
Guardian
Carries real weight...a mixture of, say, CLR James, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Fernando Pessoa and Sri Lankan arrack...essential ... Read more