Funny boy

A Novel in Six Stories

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Shyam Selvadurai: Funny boy (1997, McClelland & Stewart)

Paperback, 316 pages

English language

Published Sept. 26, 1997 by McClelland & Stewart.

ISBN:
978-0-7710-7951-1
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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 battling 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.

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Subjects

  • Gay
  • Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
  • Short Stories (single author)
  • Fiction - General

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