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Chinaman by Shehan Karunatilaka (view source)
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'''Winner: Commonwealth Writers Awards 2012 - Best Book'''
After the 1996 World Cup, dying sports journalist WG Karunasena decides that the world needs 'a half decent documentary on Sri Lankan cricket'. He sets out to make the said documentary, focusing on the mysterious Pradeep Mathew, the 1980's spin bowler he considers to have been his country's greatest ever player. But Mathew disappeared some time ago and everywhere Karunasena turns he is faced with more complications as he tries to find out more on what happened
Further reading suggestion: For more gorgeous, wonderful, lyrical literary fiction I absolutely loved [[We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen]] and [[The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon]].
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