For a game without much great fiction, that's a reason to applaud with drums - and forget the rules the marshals impose at Lord's Salil Tripathi, Independent He mixes humour and violence with the same deftness with which his protagonist mixes drinks ObserverĪ Great Cricket Novel. Karunatilaka has a real lightness of touch. The strength of the book lies in its energy, its mixture of humour and heartwrenching emotion, its twisting narrative, its playful use of cricketing facts and characters, and its occasional blazing anger about what Sri Lanka has done to itself. Carries real weight.a mixture of, say, CLR James, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Fernando Pessoa and Sri Lankan arrack.essential to anyone with a taste for maverick genius The Times
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