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Playing the Game

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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.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780374526337
  • ISBN-10: 0374526338
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Publish Date: November 1999
  • Dimensions: 8.55 x 5.55 x 0.61 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.77 pounds
  • Page Count: 244

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