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Amrithcomes to terms with his sexuality in this sweeping comingofage story set against the stormy backdrop of monsoon season in 1980s Sri Lanka For fans of Call Me By Your Name
Shyam Selvadurais brilliant novels Funny Boy and Cinnamon Gardens have garnered him international acclaim In his first young adult novel now with a new cover he explores first love with clarity humor and compassion
The setting is Sri Lanka 1980 and it is the season of monsoons Fourteenyearold Amrith is caught up in the life of the cheerful welltodo 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 Amriths holiday plans seem unpromising he wants to appear in his schools production of Othello and he is learning to type at Uncle Luckys tropical fish business Then like an unexpected monsoon his cousin arrives from Canada and Amriths ordered life is stormtossed 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
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