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Overview
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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- 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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