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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

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

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Discover the blazing debut novel from the Booker Prize winning author.'A crazy ambidextrous delight' Michael OndaatjeWhere is Pradeep S. Mathew... Read more

    Publisher: Vintage Publishing
    Publication Date: 05/04/2012
    ISBN13: 9780099555681, 978-0099555681
    ISBN10: 0099555689

    Number of Pages: 416

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

    Description

    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

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