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  Chinaman (Paperback) By (author) Shehan Karunatilaka

  

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  Short Description for Chinaman Retired sportswriter WG 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 and who WG considers the greatest cricketer to walk the earth.
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  • Publisher: VINTAGE
  • Published: 05 April 2012
  • Format: Paperback 416 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780099555681 ISBN 10: 0099555689
  • Sales rank: 13,310

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• Where is Pradeep S. Mathew - spin bowler extraordinaire and 'the greatest cricketer to walk the earth'? Retired sportswriter W. G. Karunasena is dying, and he wants to know. W.G. will spend his final months drinking arrack, making his wife unhappy, ignoring his son and tracking down the mysterious Pradeep. On his quest he will also uncover a coach with six fingers, a secret bunker below a famous stadium, a Tamil Tiger warlord, and startling truths about Sri Lanka, cricket and himself. Winner of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.