4/$20 Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai - Paperback‎

Mix and match listings marked as 4/$20 and get a $20 + shipping offer on 4 books. This used book is in a good condition with some wear to the pages, binding, and possible minor marks within. Comes from the smoke free and pet friendly home. In this remarkable debut novel, a boy’s bittersweet passage to maturity and sexual awakening is set against escalating political tensions in Sri Lanka, during the seven years leading up to the 1983 riots. Arjie Chelvaratnam is a Tamil boy growing up in an extended family in Colombo. It is through his eyes that the story unfolds and we meet a delightful, sometimes eccentric cast of characters. Arjie’s journey from the luminous simplicity of childhood days into the more intricately shaded world of adults – with its secrets, its injustices, and its capacity for violence – is a memorable one, as time and time again the true longings of the human heart are held against the way things are.