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Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai
Category: Fiction
An evocative coming-of-age novel about growing up gay in Sri Lanka during the Tamil-Sinhalese conflict one of the country s most turbulent and deadly periods.Arjie is funny. The second son of a privileged family in Sri Lanka, he prefers staging make-believe wedding pageants with his female cousins to ba ...Show more
Funny Boy: A Novel in Six Stories by Shyam Selvadurai
Category: Fiction
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NEEL MUKHERJEE 'An extraordinarily powerful, deeply moving novel' Amitav Ghosh 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 cricket with his brother. But as Arjie comes to terms ...Show more
Swimming in the Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai
Category: Children's
Amrithcomes to terms with his sexuality in this sweeping coming-of-age story set against the stormy backdrop of monsoon season in 1980s Sri Lanka. For fans of Call Me By Your Name. Shyam Selvadurai's brilliant novels, Funny Boy and Cinnamon Gardens, have garnered him international acclaim. In his first ...Show more
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