Review:
'A ravishing portrait not just of one man but of an entire country's search for a resting place.' Tash Aw
'An unsettling and moving account of a family - and a nation - at war with their own selves.' Tan Twan Eng
'Unflinchingly insightful, Shyam Selvadurai's new novel evokes the clashing manifestations of human desire and longing in two continents.' Pankaj Mishra
'A tender and haunting meditation on the long reach of the past.' Michelle de Kretser
'Selvadurai is a masterly writer, with a gift for marrying the personal with the political and cultural.' India Today
'Rendered in visceral detail...The Hungry Ghosts is lustrous in its depictions of duty, dislocation, and the ways love and relationships haunt the human heart.' Georgia Straight
'A novel of raw human longing ... his stripped-down prose focuses on the deeply personal with precision and insight ... Selvadurai's work reminds me that the contemporary novel doesn't necessarily have to resort to thrills or high jinks in order to find its usefulness. Here, it unforgettably explores the interplay between individual intention and the tragedy of a nation's history.' The Globe and Mail
'This young romance, like something out of an Edmund White novel, is beautifully and powerfully imagined...'Winnipeg Free Press
'Both Shivan's story and Sri Lanka's rich history are told through simple yet evocative prose, and Selvadurai's first-person narrative, with its modernized Dickensian tone, is an effective storytelling device ... The Hungry Ghosts is an accomplished, resonant novel.' --Quill & Quire
About the Author:
Shyam Selvadurai was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 1965, and moved to Canada with his family at the age of nineteen. His other works include Funny Boy, shortlisted for the Giller Prize and winner of the Books in Canada First Novel Award, Cinnamon Gardens and Swimming in the Monsoon Sea. Author location: Toronto, Canada
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