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020			_a9781526621580
037			_cPurchased _nMathrubhumi Books,Kaloor
041			_aEnglish
082			_aF _bROM/SU
100			_aRomesh Gunesekera
245			_aSUN-CATCHER
250			_a1
260			_aLondon _bBloomsbury Publishing _c2019/01/01
300			_g312
500			_a"Ceylon is on the brink of change. But Kairo is at a loose end. School is closed, the government is in disarray, the press is under threat and the religious right are flexing their muscles. Kairo's hard-working mother blows off steam at her cha-cha-cha classes; his Trotskyite father grumbles over the state of the nation between his secret flutters on horseraces in faraway England. All Kairo wants to do is hide in his room and flick over second-hand westerns and superhero comics, or escape on his bicycle and daydream. Then he meets the magnetic teenage Jay, and his whole world is turned inside out. A budding naturalist and a born rebel, Jay keeps fish and traps birds for an aviary he is building in the garden of his grand home. The adults in Jay's life have no say in what he does or where he goes: he holds his beautiful, fragile mother in contempt, and his wealthy father seems fuelled by anger. But his Uncle Elvin, suave and worldly, is his encourager. As Jay guides him from the realm of make believe into one of hunting-guns and fast cars and introduces him to a girl - Niromi - Kairo begins to understand the price of privilege and embarks on a journey of devastating consequence."--Provided by publisher.
650			_aTeenage boys - Sri Lanka - Fiction.
650			_aDysfunctional families - Fiction.
650			_aSri Lanka - History - 1948 - Fiction.
650			_aHistory- Fiction.
942			_cLEN
942			_2ddc
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