The match / Romesh Gunesekera.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gunesekera, Romesh.

Series:

South and Southeast Asian literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cricket--Great Britain--Fiction.

Fathers and sons--Fiction.

Sri Lankans--Great Britain--Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 p. ; 22 cm.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2008, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As a teenager from Sri Lanka, Sunny is living the typical life of an expatriate in 1970s Manila-a privileged, carefree existence-until one day when the secret behind his mother's tragic death years earlier is accidentally revealed to him, turning Sunny's world upside down. His life takes a series of unexpected turns-first in England, where he falls in love with the luminous Clara, and later in Sri Lanka, where he returns during a brief lull in the country's brutal ethnic war. Reminiscent of V.S. Naipaul in his nuanced treatment of the melancholy of exile, Gunesekera takes the reader on an ut

Contents:

VIEWFINDER; WRISTWORK; CHIN MUSIC; A DUCK'S EGG; GROUND GLASS; CHOWKIDAR

Notes:

Originally published: London : Bloomsbury, 2006.

ISBN:

9781620970560

1620970562

OCLC:

729551102