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13 produkter
Funny Boy
A Novel in Six Stories
Häftad, 2027
143 kr
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'An extraordinarily powerful, deeply moving novel' Amitav GhoshNOW A MAJOR FILM ON NETFLIX In the world of his large family - affluent Tamils living in Colombo - Arjie is an oddity, a 'funny boy' who prefers dressing as a girl to playing cricket with his brother.But as Arjie comes to terms with his …
Swimming in the Monsoon Sea
E-bok, 2012
151 kr
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Nominated for the Governor General''s Literary Awards 2005, (Children''s Literature, Text) The setting is Sri Lanka, 1980, and it is the season of monsoons. Fourteen-year-old Amrith is caught up in the life of the cheerful, well-to-do household in which he is being raised by his vibrant Auntie …
Swimming in the Monsoon Sea
Häftad, 2022
122 kr
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Amrith comes to terms with his sexuality in this sweeping coming-of-age story set against the stormy backdrop of monsoon season in 1980s Sri Lanka. For fans of Call Me By Your Name . Shyam Selvadurai’s brilliant novels, Funny Boy and Cinnamon Gardens , have garnered him international acclaim. In …
Funny Boy
A Novel in Six Stories
Häftad, 2020
135 kr
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'An extraordinarily powerful, deeply moving novel' Amitav GhoshNOW A MAJOR FILM ON NETFLIX In the world of his large family - affluent Tamils living in Colombo - Arjie is an oddity, a 'funny boy' who prefers dressing as a girl to playing cricket with his brother.But as Arjie comes to terms with his …
Funny Boy
A Novel
E-bok, 2015
101 kr
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Now a major motion picture. An evocative coming-of-age novel about growing up gay in Sri Lanka during the turbulent and deadly Tamil-Sinhalese conflict.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 …
Hungry Ghosts
E-bok, 2013
286 kr
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In Buddhist myth, the dead may be reborn as "hungry ghosts"—spirits with stomach so large they can never be full—if they have desired too much during their lives. It is the duty of the living relatives to free those doomed to this fate by doing kind deeds and creating good karma. In Shyam …
Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers
Av Shyam Selvadurai, Shyam Selvadurai
Häftad, 2005
363 kr
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Cinnamon Gardens
E-bok, 2011
102 kr
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Selvadurai has captured horrifyingly well the airlessness of a society in which only a few are truly able to breathe, and deeply' Mary Loudon, The TimesIn Shyam Selvadurai's masterful second novel, set in repressive and complex 1920s Ceylon, the Cinnamon Gardens is a residential enclave of wealthy …
Funny Boy
A Novel in Six Stories
E-bok, 2008
99 kr
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'An extraordinarily powerful, deeply moving novel' Amitav GhoshNOW A MAJOR FILM ON NETFLIX In the world of his large family - affluent Tamils living in Colombo - Arjie is an oddity, a 'funny boy' who prefers dressing as a girl to playing cricket with his brother.But as Arjie comes to terms with his …
Hungry Ghosts
Häftad, 2016
129 kr
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In Buddhist myth, those that have desired too much in life may be reborn as 'hungry ghosts' - spirits with a stomach so large they can never be full.Six-year-old Shivan is boarded up in his grandmother s mansion in Sri Lanka. While civil unrest brews outside, Shivan is fighting small battles of his …
