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Fiction
September
Swimming in the
Monsoon Sea
Shyam Selvadurai
Karen Fernandez
A stunning novel
of first – and
unexpected – love
ISBN 0-88776-735-4
US $18.95
CAN $24.99
fiction/homosexuality/Asia/social
situations/new experience
ages 13+
224 pages 5 1/8 x 7 5/8
hardcover with jacket
Rights: World ex North America
24/carton
JUV039080 JUV030020 JUV039090
On Sale: September 13, 2005
The setting is Sri Lanka, 1980, and it is the season of monsoons.
Fourteen-year-old Amrith is caught up in the life of the
cheerful, well-to-do household in which he is being raised by his
vibrant Auntie Bundle and kindly Uncle Lucky. He tries not to
think of his life “before,” when his doting mother was still alive.
Amrith’s holiday plans seem unpromising: he wants to appear in
his school’s production of Othello and he is learning to type at
Uncle Lucky’s tropical fish business. Then, like an unexpected
monsoon, his cousin arrives from Canada and Amrith’s ordered
life is storm-tossed. He finds himself falling in love with the
Canadian boy. Othello, with its powerful theme of disastrous
jealousy, is the backdrop to the drama in which Amrith finds
himself immersed.
Shyam Selvadurai’s brilliant novels, Funny Boy and Cinnamon
Gardens, have garnered him international acclaim. In this, his first
young adult novel, he explores first love with clarity, humor,
and compassion.
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SHYAM SELVADURAI was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka and came to
Canada with his family at the age of nineteen. Funny Boy, his first novel,
was published to immediate acclaim in 1994, was a national bestseller,
and won the W. H. Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award. In the
U.S., it was the winner of The Lambda Literary Award, and was named
a Notable Book by the American Library Association. Cinnamon Gardens,
his second novel, was shortlisted for the Trillium Award. It has been
published in the U.S., the U.K., India, and numerous countries in
Europe. He is the editor of Story-wallah! A Celebration of South Asian Fiction.
Shyam Selvadurai lives in Toronto.
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