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Title Statement | Suncatcher / Romesh Gunesekera. |
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Alternative Title(s) | Sun catcher |
Author | Gunesekera, Romesh |
Publication | London: Bloomsbury Publishing,2019. |
Extent of Item | 312 pages ; |
ISBN | 1526610418 9781526610416 |
Other Number | 3808197 |
Summary | Ceylon is on the brink of change. But Kairo is at a loose end. School is closed, the government is in disarray, the press is under threat and the religious right are flexing their muscles. Kairo's hard-working mother blows off steam at her cha-cha-cha classes; his Trotskyite father grumbles over the state of the nation between his secret flutters on horseraces in faraway England. All Kairo wants to do is hide in his room and flick over second-hand westerns and superhero comics, or escape on his bicycle and daydream. Then he meets the magnetic teenage Jay, and his whole world is turned inside out. A budding naturalist and a born rebel, Jay keeps fish and traps birds for an aviary he is building in the garden of his grand home. The adults in Jay's life have no say in what he does or where he goes: he holds his beautiful, fragile mother in contempt, and his wealthy father seems fuelled by anger. But his Uncle Elvin, suave and worldly, is his encourager. As Jay guides him from the realm of make believe into one of hunting-guns and fast cars and introduces him to a girl - Niromi - Kairo begins to understand the price of privilege and embarks on a journey of devastating consequence. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Teenage boys--Fiction |
Dysfunctional families--Fiction | |
Privilege (Social psychology)--Fiction | |
By Location | Sri Lanka--Fiction--History--1948- |
By Genre | Bildungsromans |
Historical fiction | |
Domestic fiction |