Chinaman
By: Shehan Karunatilaka
Publisher: Windsor
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
Number of pages: 575
ISBN-13: 9781471315770; 9781471315787
Subjects: Sportswriters; Cricket players; Fiction
Description: Retired sportswriter W.G. 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.
Notes: Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2011.

Winner of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, 2012