{"title":"Shyam Selvadurai","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"story-wallah-short-fiction-from-south-asian-writers","title":"Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers","description":"\u003cp\u003eWriters of South Asian descent have been garnering more and more success, acclaim, and attention. Story-Wallah gathers the finest South Asian voices in fiction for the first time in a single volume. As Shyam Selvadurai writes in his introduction, \"The stories jostle up against each other . . . The effect is a marvelous cacophony that reminds me of . . . one of those South Asian bazaars, a bargaining, carnival-like milieu. The goods on sale in this instance being stories hawked by story-traders: story-wallahs.\" In this book, some of the world's best fiction writers hawk their wares from different parts of the South Asian diaspora -- Sri Lanka, India, the United States, Great Britain, Guyana, Malaysia, Trinidad, Fiji -- creating a virtual map of the world with their tales. These stories explore universal themes of identity, culture, and home, and Story-Wallah includes a rich array of experiences: a honeymoon in Sri Lanka, the trials of a Bangladeshi refugee in England, life on a sugar plantation in Trinidad, the attempts of an Indian family to arrange a marriage for their rebellious daughter.\u003cbr\u003e This anthology is essential reading for anyone with an interest in South Asian writers and the dynamic, important tales they have to tell.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shyam Selvadurai","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":53139513442595,"sku":"9780618576807","price":19.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/2258\/5123\/files\/9780618576807.jpg?v=1741114054"},{"product_id":"funny-boy-a-novel","title":"Funny Boy: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSoon to be \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ea major motion picture \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003edirected by Deepa Mehta\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—coming to Netflix December 10, 2020!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn evocative coming-of-age novel about growing up gay in Sri Lanka during the Tamil-Sinhalese conflict—one of the country’s most turbulent and deadly periods.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArjie is “funny.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second son of a privileged family in Sri Lanka, he prefers staging make-believe wedding pageants with his female cousins to battling balls with the other boys. When his parents discover his innocent pastime, Arjie is forced to abandon his idyllic childhood games and adopt the rigid rules of an adult world. Bewildered by his incipient sexual awakening, mortified by the bloody Tamil-Sinhalese conflicts that threaten to tear apart his homeland, Arjie painfully grows toward manhood and an understanding of his own “different” identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRefreshing, raw, and poignant, \u003cem\u003eFunny Boy\u003c\/em\u003e is an exquisitely written, compassionate tale of a boy’s coming-of-age that quietly confounds expectations of love, family, and country as it delivers the powerful message of staying true to one’s self no matter the obstacles.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shyam Selvadurai","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":53152047923491,"sku":"9780062392985","price":15.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/2258\/5123\/files\/9780062392985.jpg?v=1741154265"}],"url":"https:\/\/epicreads.com\/collections\/shyam-selvadurai.oembed","provider":"Epic Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}