Funny Boy [WorldCat Entities]

"The second son of a privileged family in Sri Lanka, he prefers staging make-believe wedding pageants with his female cousins to batting balls with the other boys."@en
"Sri Lanka during the seven years leading up to the 1983 riots."@en
"Translated from English."
"Een ca. 10-jarige telg uit een welgesteld Tamil-geslacht wordt al jong geconfronteerd met de problemen van homoseksualiteit in een traditionele cultuur en racisme."
"The second son of a privileged family in Sri Lanka, he prefers staging make-believe wedding pageants with his female cousins to batting 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."@en
"Alors que le Sri Lanka s'enfonce dans la violence politique et raciale, Argie, enfant, puis adolescent, découvre peu à peu son homosexualité, dans un pays qui ne la tolère pas. Un premier roman d'initiation."

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