Funny boy

a novel in six stories

No cover

Funny boy (1994, Penguin Books)

316 pages

English language

Published Nov. 26, 1994 by Penguin Books.

ISBN:
978-0-14-025004-6
Copied ISBN!
OCLC Number:
57590741

View on OpenLibrary

No rating (0 reviews)

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.

19 editions

Subjects

  • Young men -- Fiction
  • Gay men -- Fiction
  • Sri Lanka -- Fiction