Funny Boy: A Novel in Six Stories
Author: Shyam Selvadurai
A quiet masterpiece’ Gay Times,,In the world of his large family – affluent Tamils living in Colombo, Sri Lanka – Arjie is an oddity, a ‘funny boy’ who prefers dressing as a girl to playing cricket with his brother.,,But as Arjie comes to terms with his own homo-sexuality and with the racism of the society in which he lives, Sri Lanka is plunged into civil war as fighting bet….Read More
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