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Selvadurai, Shyam, 1965-
Subjects
Gay men -- Fiction.
Young men -- Fiction.
Homosexuality -- Fiction.
Amazon.ca First Novel Award.
Sri Lanka -- History -- 1948- -- Fiction.
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Selvadurai, Shyam, 1965-
Gay men -- Fiction.
Young men -- Fiction.
Homosexuality -- Fiction.
Amazon.ca First Novel Award.
Sri Lanka -- History -- 1948- -- Fiction.
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Funny
boy
: a
novel
in
six
stories
/ Shyam Selvadurai.
by
Selvadurai, Shyam, 1965-
McClelland & Stewart, c1994.
Call #:
FICTION SEL
Subjects
Gay men -- Fiction.
Young men -- Fiction.
Homosexuality -- Fiction.
Amazon.ca First
Novel
Award.
Sri Lanka -- History -- 1948- -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780771001758
9780771080289 (2012 Emblem trade pbk.)
0771079508
0771079516 (pbk.)
Description:
316 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"Set in Sri Lanka where Selvadurai grew up,
Funny
Boy
is constructed in the form of
six
poignant
stories
about a
boy
coming to age within a wealthy Tamil family in Colombo. Between the ages of seven and fourteen, he explores his sexual identity, and encounters the Sinhala-Tamil tensions leading up to the 1983 riots."--Wikipedia.
Awards:
Winner of the Chapters/Books in Canada First
Novel
Award, 1994.
Genre:
Linked
stories
.
Bildungsromans.
Black fiction.
Canadian fiction.
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Central Library
Adult Black Fiction
FICTION SEL
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