Funny Boy: A Novel
červenec 2015 · HarperCollins
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Now a major motion picture. An evocative coming-of-age novel about growing up gay in Sri Lanka during the turbulent and deadly Tamil-Sinhalese conflict.
Arjie is “funny.”
The second son of a privileged family in Sri Lanka, he prefers staging make-believe wedding pageants with his female cousins to battling balls with the other boys. When his parents discover his innocent pastime, Arjie is forced to abandon his idyllic childhood games and adopt the rigid rules of an adult world. Bewildered by his incipient sexual awakening, mortified by the bloody Tamil-Sinhalese conflicts that threaten to tear apart his homeland, Arjie painfully grows toward manhood and an understanding of his own “different” identity.
Refreshing, raw, and poignant, Funny Boy is an exquisitely written, compassionate tale of a boy’s coming-of-age that quietly confounds expectations of love, family, and country as it delivers the powerful message of staying true to one’s self no matter the obstacles.
“Adult intolerance of difference and the process of coming out as a gay teenager are given fresh perspective and rare insight.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“A great deal more than a gay coming-of-age novel . . . Selvadurai writes as sensitively about the emotional intensity of adolescence as he does about the wonder of childhood.” —The New York Times Book Review
“There’s not a shred of false optimism in this delicately balanced coming-of-age novel by Selvadurai, a remarkably talented young writer.” —Entertainment Weekly
“Compassionate and mature . . . blessed with both a deftness of touch and a seriousness of purpose. An auspicious debut.” —Montreal Gazette
Arjie is “funny.”
The second son of a privileged family in Sri Lanka, he prefers staging make-believe wedding pageants with his female cousins to battling balls with the other boys. When his parents discover his innocent pastime, Arjie is forced to abandon his idyllic childhood games and adopt the rigid rules of an adult world. Bewildered by his incipient sexual awakening, mortified by the bloody Tamil-Sinhalese conflicts that threaten to tear apart his homeland, Arjie painfully grows toward manhood and an understanding of his own “different” identity.
Refreshing, raw, and poignant, Funny Boy is an exquisitely written, compassionate tale of a boy’s coming-of-age that quietly confounds expectations of love, family, and country as it delivers the powerful message of staying true to one’s self no matter the obstacles.
“Adult intolerance of difference and the process of coming out as a gay teenager are given fresh perspective and rare insight.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“A great deal more than a gay coming-of-age novel . . . Selvadurai writes as sensitively about the emotional intensity of adolescence as he does about the wonder of childhood.” —The New York Times Book Review
“There’s not a shred of false optimism in this delicately balanced coming-of-age novel by Selvadurai, a remarkably talented young writer.” —Entertainment Weekly
“Compassionate and mature . . . blessed with both a deftness of touch and a seriousness of purpose. An auspicious debut.” —Montreal Gazette
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Shyam Selvadurai was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Funny Boy, his first novel, won the W.H. Smith/ Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Lambda Literary Award in the United States. He is the author of Cinnamon Gardens and Swimming in the Monsoon Sea, and the editor of an anthology, Story-wallah! A Celebration of South Asian Fiction. His books have been published in the United States, United Kingdom, and India, and in translation.
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