Chinaman

Informationen zum Autor Shehan Karunatilaka is the multi-award winning author of two novels. He won the Commonwealth Book Prize and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature for his debut novel, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew . He won the Booker Prize 2022 for his second novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeid a . In addition to his novels he has written rock songs, screenplays and travel stories. Klappentext Shehan Karunatilaka has written advertisements, rock songs, travel stories and basslines. Chinaman is his first novel. Zusammenfassung On his quest he will also uncover 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. Winner of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.

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The strength of the book lies in its energy, its mixture of humour and heartwrenching emotion, its twisting narrative, its playful use of cricketing facts and characters, and its occasional blazing anger about what Sri Lanka has done to itself... Guardian

Product details

• Authors: Shehan Karunatilaka, Karunatilaka Shehan
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.04.2012
• EAN: 9780099555681
• ISBN: 978-0-09-955568-1
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 31 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Sri-lankische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), Sri Lanka, FICTION / Family Life / General, Sports fiction, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), FICTION / World Literature / Southeast Asia