Fiction

S e p t e m b e r

Swimming in the

Monsoon Sea

Shyam Selvadurai

The setting is Sri Lanka, 1980, and it is the season of monsoons.

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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

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vibrant Auntie Bundle and kindly Uncle Lucky. He tries not to

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think of his life  before,  when his doting mother was still alive.

Amrith's holiday plans seem unpromising: he wants to appear in

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his school's production of Othello and he is learning to type at

of first   and

Uncle Lucky's tropical fish business. Then, like an unexpected

monsoon, his cousin arrives from Canada and Amrith's ordered

unexpected   love  

life is storm tossed. He finds himself falling in love with the

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Canadian boy. Othello, with its powerful theme of disastrous

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jealousy, is the backdrop to the drama in which Amrith finds

CAN $24.99

himself immersed.

Shyam Selvadurai's brilliant novels, Funny Boy and Cinnamon

fiction/homosexuality/Asia/social

situations/new experience

Gardens, have garnered him international acclaim. In this, his first

young adult novel, he explores first love with clarity, humor, 

ages 13+

and compassion.

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S

HYAM

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ELVADURAI

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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