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Chinaman

From author of Booker Prize 2022 winner The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

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Chinaman

Yazan: Shehan Karunatilaka
Seslendiren: Shivantha Wijesinha
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Brought to you by Penguin.

Discover the blazing debut novel from the Booker Prize winning author.

'A crazy ambidextrous delight' Michael Ondaatje

Where is Pradeep S. Mathew - spin bowler extraordinaire and 'the greatest cricketer to walk the earth'?

Retired sportswriter W. G. Karunasena is dying, and he wants to know.

W.G. will spend his final months drinking arrack, making his wife unhappy, ignoring his son and tracking down the mysterious Pradeep. On his quest he will also uncover a coach with six fingers, a secret bunker below a famous stadium, a Tamil Tiger warlord, and startling truths about Sri Lanka, cricket and himself.

'Bristling with energy and confidence' Sunday Times

Winner of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature

©2011 Shehan Karunatilaka (P)2023 Penguin Audio

 Family Life Genre Fiction Kurgu Literary Fiction Sports World Literature
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The strength of the book lies in its energy, its mixture of humour and heartwrenching emotion, its twisting narrative, its playful use of cricketing facts and characters, and its occasional blazing anger about what Sri Lanka has done to itself... (Kamila Shamsie)
Carries real weight...a mixture of, say, CLR James, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Fernando Pessoa and Sri Lankan arrack...essential to anyone with a taste for maverick genius
Karunatilaka has a real lightness of touch. He mixes humour and violence with the same deftness with which his protagonist mixes drinks
Chinaman is a debut bristling with energy and confidence, a quixotic novel that is both an elegy to lost ambitions and a paean to madcap dreams
Chinaman's free-wheeling, zany tempo is part of its charm too. Its picaresque action, mainly based in Colombo and narrated in short bite-sized chunks, gives a vibrant comic pulse to Sri Lankan life, even though Karunatilaka's portrait of the country is scathing...it confirms that cricket, a game that is largely played in the head and inhabits a bizarrely detailed parallel world to our own, is ideally suited to the purposes of fiction
A Great Cricket Novel. For a game without much great fiction, that's a reason to applaud with drums - and forget the rules the marshals impose at Lord's (Salil Tripathi)
It's funny and original, extremely revealing about Sri Lanka, and as for the cricket, in the author's own words: "If you can't understand why anyone would watch, let alone obsess over this dull game, then this is the book for you." Brilliant (Kate Saunders)
At an early stage, I will confess that I was very close to typing 'Pradeep Mathew Cricinfo' into Google just to check whether there was indeed a Sri Lankan cricketer of that name ... that may be a recommendation of the book; it may be a condemnation. But I have always had a soft spot for Sri Lankan cricket (Steve James)
A hugely entertaining read
Confident and poignant debut

Öne çıkan makale: Booker Ödülü sahibi Shehan Karunatilaka, iç savaşı konu almayan nadir bir Sri Lanka hikayesi hakkında


Shehan Karunatilaka’nın The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida adlı eserini dinlemek bizim için büyük bir keyifti. Bu yüzden ilk romanı Chinaman bu yılın başında sesli kitap olarak yayımlandığında, kendisine bu konuda sorular sormak için sabırsızlanıyorduk.

Öne çıkan makale Booker Ödülü sahibi Shehan Karunatilaka, iç savaşı konu almayan nadir bir Sri Lanka hikayesi hakkında
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This is a book filled with conversations, contradictory stories, where the reader's perception of reality is constantly challenged by unreliable narrators. I enjoy being misled as such and listening to these stories and discovering every character.

intriguing and fascinating

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The play between past (Sri Lankan) realty and fiction- wow! Thoroughly enjoyed Chinaman. Wondering why it took me so long to pick it up.

Another amazing book by Shehan K

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.. but I adore this book, the dry humour, brutal undercurrent, and excellent narration.

I'm not even a fan of cricket

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This is an extraordinary book of incredible writing quality. Tragic, playful, humorous, loving, angry and wise.
This 100% a time when it’s definitely better to listen than read as the performed reading adds another layer of nuance and understanding - and keeps the flow for English readers who’d stutter with Sri Lankan proper names and Singhalese dialogue.

Exceptional

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A magical story which explores so many topics (obsession, addiction, familial pressure) with such wonderful and vivid prose.

The ending is superb and the recital is great.

My favourite quote is of The Yorkshireman "he made enemies faster than he made runs".

A magical story

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