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008			200612b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a9780143450443
037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_aF _bSHE/CH
100			_aShehan Karunatilaka
245			_aCHINAMAN : Legend Of Pradeep Mathew
250			_a1
260			_aUSA _bPenguin _c2020/01/01
300			_g528
500			_aRetired sportswriter W.G. Karunasena is dying. He will spend his final months drinking arrack, upsetting his wife, ignoring his son, and tracking down Pradeep S. Mathew, an elusive spin bowler he considers 'the greatest cricketer to walk the earth'. On his quest to find this unsung genius, W.G. uncovers a coach with six fingers, a secret bunker below a famous stadium, an LTTE warlord, and startling truths about Sri Lanka, cricket and himself. Ambitious, playful and strikingly original, Chinaman is a novel about cricket and Sri Lanka and of Sri Lanka through its cricket. Hailed by the Gratiaen Prize judges as 'one of the most imaginative works of contemporary Sri Lankan fiction', it is an astounding book.
650			_aFiction
650			_a Cricket players -- Fiction.
650			_aSportswriters -- Fiction.
650			_aCricket stories.
650			_aSri Lanka -- Fiction.
942			_cLEN
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942			_2ddc
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