Playing the Game: A Novel
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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Playing the Game: A Novel
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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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780374526337 |
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Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Publication date: | 11/01/1999 |
Edition description: | American Edition |
Pages: | 244 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.70(d) |
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