Chinaman

Chinaman

Author(s): Shehan Karunatilaka

Location(s): Sri Lanka

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1990s onwards

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Ambitious, playful and strikingly original, Chinaman is a novel about cricket and Sri Lanka – and the story of modern day Sri Lanka through its most cherished sport. Hailed by the Gratiaen Prize judges as ‘one of the most imaginative works of contemporary Sri Lankan fiction’, it is an astounding book.

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`this is the only bit of cricket fiction I have read that has serious ambitions and that carries real weight … a mixture of, say, CLR James, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Fernando Pessoa and Sri...

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SRI LANKA Spotlight Review #fromourbookshelves Chinaman by Shehan Karuntatilaka I know nothing about cricket and thus this novel is a bit of a ‘googly’ for me. I had to look up the meaning of Chinaman (other than the obvious)...