num_pages: 211
description: 'I have been bunking off school to go to the movies. I have stolen money, I have sold things, I have double-crossed my friends and - I cannot bear to think of the thought - have been into the bathroom with my brother's friend, Darab.'Eight-year old Cyrus Readmoney, son of wealthy parents, voluntarily lives like a vagabond, roaming the streets of Bombay and inviting himself into the homes and lives of the neighbours. Obsessed with the sensual delights of food, colourful Hindi films and his growing sexual awareness, precocious Cyrus lives day to day on the margins of the adult world - treating it as a playground for his boyish exuberance.
language: English
title: Beach boy
titlecomplete: Beach boy
characters: Cyrus Readmoney
genres: Fiction, Indian Literature, Coming Of Age, LGBT, India, Young Adult, Novels
ratings_count: 244
places: Bombay
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Whitbread Award
category: First Novel, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Betty Trask Award
publisher: Penguin Books