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Chinaman : the legend of Pradeep Mathew : a novel / Shehan Karunatilaka.

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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
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