Record Number |
887835 |
ISBN |
9780099555681 (paperback) |
Author |
Karunatilaka, Shehan author. |
Title |
Chinaman : the legend of Pradeep Mathew : a novel / Shehan Karunatilaka. |
Publisher/Date |
London : Vintage, 2012. |
©2012 |
Pagination etc. |
397 pages ; 20 cm. |
Contents note |
Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2011. |
Summary Note |
Retired sportswriter WG Karunasena is dying. He will spend his final months drinking arrack, making his wife unhappy, ignoring his son and tracking down Pradeep S. Mathew, a spin bowler who has mysteriously disappeared and who WG considers 'the greatest cricketer to walk the Earth'. On his quest to find this unsung genius, WG uncovers 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. |
Subject - Name |
Mathew, Pradeep Sivanathan, -- 1965-Fiction |
Subject |
Cricket players -- Fiction |
Cricket stories |
Sportswriters -- Fiction |
Sri Lanka -- Fiction |
Shelf Location |
F KARU |