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Funny Boy

by Shyam Selvadurai
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In this remarkable debut novel, a boy’s bittersweet passage to maturity and sexual awakening is set against escalating political tensions in Sri Lanka, during the seven years leading up to the 1983 riots. Arjie Chelvaratnam is a Tamil boy growing up in an extended family in Colombo. It is through his eyes that the story unfolds and we meet a delightful, sometimes eccentric cast of characters. Arjie’s journey from the luminous simplicity of childhood days into the more intricately shaded world of adults – with its secrets, its injustices, and its capacity for violence – is a memorable one, as time and time again the true longings of the human heart are held against the way things are.
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Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

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  • ISBN: 9781551997193
  • Release date: January 29, 2013

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  • ISBN: 9781551997193
  • File size: 3653 KB
  • Release date: January 29, 2013
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subjects

Fiction Literature Short Stories LGBTQIA+ (Fiction)

Languages

English

Levels

Lexile® Measure:780
Text Difficulty:3-4

In this remarkable debut novel, a boy’s bittersweet passage to maturity and sexual awakening is set against escalating political tensions in Sri Lanka, during the seven years leading up to the 1983 riots. Arjie Chelvaratnam is a Tamil boy growing up in an extended family in Colombo. It is through his eyes that the story unfolds and we meet a delightful, sometimes eccentric cast of characters. Arjie’s journey from the luminous simplicity of childhood days into the more intricately shaded world of adults – with its secrets, its injustices, and its capacity for violence – is a memorable one, as time and time again the true longings of the human heart are held against the way things are.
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Fiction Literature Short Stories LGBTQIA+ (Fiction)
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