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Title
The Hungry Ghosts
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Author
Selvadurai, Shyam
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Binding
Paperback
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Condition
Used - Good
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Pages
384
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Volumes
1
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Language
ENG
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Publisher
Anchor Canada
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Date
2014-04-01
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Bookseller's Inventory #
5509315-6
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ISBN
9780385670685 / 0385670680
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Weight
1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
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Dimensions
9.16 x 6.06 x 0.99 in (23.27 x 15.39 x 2.51 cm)
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Dewey Decimal Code
813.54
From the publisher
SHYAM SELVADURAI was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He came to Canada with his family at the age of nineteen, and has a BFA from York University in Toronto. Funny Boy, his first novel, was published to immediate acclaim in 1994, was a national bestseller, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and the Lambda Literary Award, and was named a Notable Book by the American Library Association. Cinnamon Gardens, his second novel, was shortlisted for the prestigious Trillium Award and has been published in the US, UK, India, and Europe. Selvadurai is also the author of an acclaimed novel for young adults, Swimming in the Monsoon Sea, which was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award. Selvadurai lives in Toronto with his partner.
Media reviews
• "This young romance, like something out of an Edmund White novel, is beautifully and powerfully imagined. . . . Calling to mind the work of Indo-American writer Jhumpa Lahiri, Selvadurai does an excellent job contrasting Sri Lanka and Canada." --Winnipeg Free Press
• "From his debut novel, 1994's Funny Boy, to his latest, The Hungry Ghosts, he's meditated on his birth country's fraught mélange of history, politics and religion while developing a style that's anything but bare bones and laconic." --National Post
About the author
SHYAM SELVADURAI was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He came to Canada with his family at the age of nineteen, and has a BFA from York University in Toronto. Funny Boy, his first novel, was published to immediate acclaim in 1994, was a national bestseller, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and the Lambda Literary Award, and was named a Notable Book by the American Library Association. Cinnamon Gardens, his second novel, was shortlisted for the prestigious Trillium Award and has been published in the US, UK, India, and Europe. Selvadurai is also the author of an acclaimed novel for young adults, Swimming in the Monsoon Sea, which was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award. Selvadurai lives in Toronto with his partner.
