Funny boy
Subtitle: a novel
By: Shyam Selvadurai
Edition: First William Morrow paperback edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780062392985
Copyright date: 1994
Subjects: Young men; Domestic fiction; Gay men; Fiction
Description: Arjie is funny. The second son of a privileged family in Sri Lanka, he prefers staging make-believe wedding pageants with his female cousins to battling balls with the other boys. When his parents discover his innocent pastime, Arjie is forced to abandon his idyllic childhood games and adopt the rigid rules of an adult world. Bewildered by his incipient sexual awakening, mortified by the bloody Tamil-Sinhalese conflicts that threaten to tear apart his homeland, Arjie painfully grows toward manhood and an understanding of his own different identity.
Notes: Lambda Literary Award, 1996