Beggar's Feast

Randy Boyagoda has written for a variety of publications, including The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal, The Paris Review and Harper's Magazine . His second novel, Beggar's Feast , was nominated for the 2013 IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize and was selected as a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice. Born to Sri Lankan parents, he lives in Toronto with his wife and four daughters.

Summary

Sam Kandy, born in 1899 in a poor village in the heart of Ceylon and abandoned by his family ten years later at the gates of a remote temple, resolves to make his own luck amongst the cheats and chancers of the world. He marries a nobleman's daughter and coldly pursues a life of wealth, prestige, and power.

Product details

• Authors: Randy Boyagoda, Boyagoda Randy
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.01.2014
• EAN: 9780241001547
• ISBN: 978-0-241-00154-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Sri Lanka, Historical fiction, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Family life fiction, Sociology: family & relationships, Family & relationships, Fiction: general and literary, Sri Lanka (Ceylon)