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Funny Boy

Shyam Selvadurai
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 batting balls with the other boys. When his parents discover his innocent pastime, Arjie is forced to abandon his idyllic childhood games and adopt the rigid rules of an adult world. Bewildered by his incipient sexual awakening, mortified by the bloody Tamil-Sinhalese conflicts that threaten to tear apart his homeland, Arjie painfully grows toward manhood and an understanding of his own “different” identity.Refreshing, raw, and poignant, Funny Boy is an exquisitely written, compassionate tale of a boy’s coming-of-age that quietly confounds expectations of love, family, and country as it delivers the powerful message of staying true to one’s self no matter the obstacles.
Autor: Selvadurai, Shyam
EAN: 9780062392985
Sprache: Englisch
Seitenzahl: 320
Produktart: kartoniert, broschiert
Verlag: William Morrow Paperbacks
Veröffentlichungsdatum: 15.01.2020
Größe: 19 × 133 × 203
Gewicht: 405 g