'An extraordinarily powerful, deeply moving novel' Amitav Ghosh
Shyam Selvadurai was born in 1965 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He left Sri Lanka after the 1983 riots in Colombo and settled with his family in Canada. He lives in Toronto.
An extaordinarily powerful, deeply moving novel -- Amitav Ghosh
Selvadurai writes as sensitively about the emotional intensity of
adolescence as he does about the wonder of childhood * New York
Times Book Review *
Glittering and wise... Funny Boy keeps repeating that the human
condition can, in spite of everything, be joyful. You are not
alone, it says to the reader. I understand you. I too was there. I
remember -- Alberto Manguel
A quiet masterpiece * Gay Times *
At first sight an innocently observed portrait of Tamil family life
in seventies Sri Lanka, it metamorphosed into a lucid, serious
piece of writing... Selvadurai's world is delightful, frightening,
important and he describes it with touching clarity... His novel is
a graceful and intelligent account of the random nature of growing
up * Observer *
Exquisitely written...superb * Independent *
The unadorned and simple prose has elegance and great
sophistication. Moreover, Selvadurai has a genius for touching a
nerve with a feather-light touch... A powerful and beautifully
written novel * Literary Review *
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