Gunasena, Sarasavi, Lake House, Expographics, Godage and Samayawardhana.įor more information please visit. If you’ve never seen a cricket match if you have and it has made you snore if you can’t understand why anyone would watch, let alone obsess over this dull game, then this is the book for you.Ĭhinaman is available at the following chains: Vijitha Yapa, M.D. It also features a midget, a man accused of paedophilia, match-fixers, terrorists.

A tale that serves as a metaphor for Sri Lanka – a nation blessed with many gifts, and the uncanny ability to squander them. Shehan Karunatilaka's debut novel, Chinaman, features a suicide, several alcoholics and almost no volleyball. uncovers a coac h with six fingers, a secret bunker below a famous stadium, an LTTE warlord, and startling truths about Sri Lanka, cricket and himself.Ĭhinaman is part-comedy, part-mystery and part-drunken-memoir. On his quest to find this unsung genius, W.G. Mathew – “the greatest cricketer to walk the earth”. He will spend his final months drinking arrack, irritating his wife, ignoring his son and tracking down Pradeep S. Now, brilliantly captured in Sinhala, Chinaman opens its strange and wonderful world to whole new Sri Lankan readership. Hailed by the Gratiaen Prize judges as ‘one of the most imaginative works of contemporary Sri Lankan fiction’, it is an astounding book.Īcclaimed across Asia, the UK and the US, it has won the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize, the 2012 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and was picked as one of the top debuts of 2011 by Waterstones UK. 4.17 (1,682 ratings by Goodreads) Paperback English By (author) Shehan Karunatilaka. 695.Īmbitious, playful and strikingly original, Chinaman is a novel about cricket and Sri Lanka and of Sri Lanka through its cricket. Chinaman by Shehan Karunatilaka, 9780143450443, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. The translation, by renown advertising expert Dileepa Abeysekera is published by Diogenes Publishing and priced at Rs. The Sinhala translation of Shehan Karunatilaka’s Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew is now available at bookshops island wide.

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