Funny Boy

Type

Book

Authors

Selvadurai ( Shyam Selvadurai )

ISBN 10

1551997193

ISBN 13

9781551997193

Tags

Fiction, Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan, Gay, Kids, Teens, Coming of Age, Coming Out, Questionning, Youth, Tamil, English, North American, Canada

Description

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.

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