Chinaman

Author: Shehan Karunatilaka

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  • : $19.99 AUD
  • : 9780099555681
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
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  • : January 2012
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 30mm
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  • : June 2012
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  • : English
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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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One of the most acclaimed debuts of the year - a rumbustuous, brilliant novel about Sri Lanka, cricket and the search for a legendary sportsman

Awards

Winner of Commonwealth Book Prize - Asia 2012 and Commonwealth Book Prize 2012.

Author description

Shehan Karunatilaka has written advertisements, rock songs, travel stories and basslines. Chinaman is his first novel.