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Can I read Funny Boy : A Novel in Six Stories on EtoBox?
Funny Boy : A Novel in Six Stories by Selvadurai, Shyam, 1965- is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Funny Boy : A Novel in Six Stories about?
Arjie is funny. The 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.
Who reads Funny Boy : A Novel in Six Stories?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Selvadurai, Shyam, 1965-
- Publisher
- Emblem/McClelland & Stewart
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780771079511
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Music, Short Stories
- Rating
- 3.9 / 5 (148 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14