"If you have never seen a cricket match; if you have and it has made you snore; if you can't understand why anyone would watch, let alone obsess over this dull game, this book is for you". And with that eerily accurate prediction Shehan Karunathika starts off on the Chinaman. Part Flaubert's parr...
This book is tremendous. It's a long, multilayered and complicated story but it's told in a relaxed and disarming style. There were many details that I didn't fully understand, but I tried not to get hung up on that and just plowed through. Kind of like life. The hectic structure reminded me of o...