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“Shyam Selvadurai has brought back from his Sri Lankan childhood a glittering and wise novel. Funny Boy keeps repeating with quiet conviction that the human condition can, in spite of everything, be joyful. You are not alone, it says to the reader I understand you. I was there. I remember.”
–Alberto Manguel
“He spins a subtle web that holds readers captive....”
–Saskatoon StarPhoenix
“A powerful and beautifully written novel....”
–Literary Review (U.K.)
“Lyrical, moving, and deeply perceptive. This isn’t the first coming-of-age story ever written, but I doubt there’s been one quite like it.”
–Halifax Chronicle-Herald
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–Alberto Manguel
“He spins a subtle web that holds readers captive....”
–Saskatoon StarPhoenix
“A powerful and beautifully written novel....”
–Literary Review (U.K.)
“Lyrical, moving, and deeply perceptive. This isn’t the first coming-of-age story ever written, but I doubt there’s been one quite like it.”
–Halifax Chronicle-Herald
Shyam Selvadurai was born in 1965 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He came to Canada with his family at the age of nineteen. He has studied creative writing and theatre, and has a B.F.A. from York University.
Funny Boy, his first novel, was published to immediate acclaim in 1994, was a national bestseller, and won the W. H. Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award and, in the U.S., The Lambda Literary Award, and was named a Notable Book by the American Library Association. Cinnamon Gardens, his second novel, was shortlisted for the Trillium Award. It has been published in the U.S., the U.K., India, and numerous countries in Europe.
Shyam Selvadurai lives in Toronto.
Funny Boy, his first novel, was published to immediate acclaim in 1994, was a national bestseller, and won the W. H. Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award and, in the U.S., The Lambda Literary Award, and was named a Notable Book by the American Library Association. Cinnamon Gardens, his second novel, was shortlisted for the Trillium Award. It has been published in the U.S., the U.K., India, and numerous countries in Europe.
Shyam Selvadurai lives in Toronto.
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- EditoreMcClelland & Stewart Ltd
- Data di pubblicazione1995
- ISBN 10 0771079508
- ISBN 13 9780771079504
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine316
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