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Funny Boy

Shyam Selvadurai

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#4161 of 8,085 books · #650 in Historical Fiction

Shortlisted for the Giller Prize (1994).

Arjie is a sensitive boy who prefers to play dressed as a bride with the girls in his Tamil extended family rather than to exert himself on the cricket field. As the carefree days of childhood give way, he increasingly begins to feel the contradictions and prejudices of the adult world.

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Publisher
Bollmann
ISBN-13
9783927901681
Topics
Coming of ageSexual identityEthnic conflict in Sri Lanka

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