Shyam Selvadurai: 2 books
by Shyam Selvadurai
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Nominated for the Governor General's Literary Awards 2005, (Children's Literature, Text)
The setting is Sri Lanka, 1980, and it is the season of monsoons. Fourteen-year-old Amrith is caught up in the life of the cheerful, well-to-do household in which he is being raised by his vibrant Auntie...
Funny Boy
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
An evocative coming-of-age novel about growing up gay in Sri Lanka during the Tamil-Sinhalese conflict—one of the country’s most turbulent and deadly periods.
Arjie is “funny.”
The second son of a privileged family in Sri Lanka, he prefers staging make-believe wedding pageants...