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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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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Very Good. Size: 8x5x1; Hardcover with dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show very minor shelf wear. Dust jacket shows light edge wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong. APPEARS UNREAD. ALMOST LIKE NEW.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
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New York. 1991. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374234523. 231 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature England. FROM THE PUBLISHER-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. inventory #22808.
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1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black/tan cloth (top edge lightly spotted, small black stain on bottom edges of front paste-down and endpapers-otherwise VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 231 (no inscriptions).
