Drôle de garçon
About this book
Arjie is funny. The second son of a privileged family in Sri Lanka, he prefers staging make-believe wedding pageants with his female cousins to battling 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.
Reader Profile
4.1/5 · 9312 readers · 314 pages · ≈ 5 h 49 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read Drôle de garçon?
About ≈ 5 h 49 m — 314 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is Drôle de garçon?
314 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is Drôle de garçon?
It sits on the Fiction shelves.
Is Drôle de garçon in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote Drôle de garçon?
Shyam Selvadurai (1965–0).