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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Buruma, Ian
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| Publisher: |
Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
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| Date: |
12/19/1991
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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Buruma's prismatic, fascinating first novel is a portrait of Ranji, the cricket player who was "not simply the greatest cricketer of all time, but a fairy tale prince . . . so famous that children sang songs about him, and grown men wept when they saw him play." Buruma weaves the adventures of an unnamed narrator together with a (fictional) undiscovered memoir of Ranji to create a witty and reverbatory meditation on England, India and the post-colonial sense of self.
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