Funny Boy: A Novel - Hardcover

Selvadurai, Shyam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688145957 ISBN 13: 9780688145958

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1996

Synopsis

Coming of age as the son of a middle-class Sri Lankan family, Arjie finds his childhood games giving way to a realization that he is gay, in a gentle and humorous story set against a backdrop of growing racial tension and civil unrest.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

In this remarkable debut novel, a boy?s bittersweet passage to maturity and sexual awakening is set against escalating political tensions in Sri Lanka, during the seven years leading up to the 1983 riots. Arjie Chelvaratnam is a Tamil boy growing up in an extended family in Colombo. It is through his eyes that the story unfolds and we meet a delightful, sometimes eccentric cast of characters. Arjie?s journey from the luminous simplicity of childhood days into the more intricately shaded world of adults ? with its secrets, its injustices, and its capacity for violence ? is a memorable one, as time and time again the true longings of the human heart are held against the way things are.

From the Back Cover:

This dazzling debut novel portrays a Tamil boy's bittersweet discovery of his own homosexuality and the intricate, shaded world of adults. Set in Sri Lanka, the story of Arjie's complex coming of age takes place amid the political turmoil that led to the 1983 Colombo riots.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0688145957
• ISBN 13: 9780688145958
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 310