In this story, the ordinary becomes a delirium without one knowing very well how, in which the rare ends up being normal and in which we can't do anything but laugh, because everything is hilarious and surreal at the same time. This story is a mirror to life itself.
Buruma's prismatic, fascinating first novel is a portrait of Ranji, the cricket player who was "not simply the greatest cricketer of all time, but a fairy tale prince . . . so famous that children sang songs about him, and grown men wept when they saw him
Buruma's prismatic, fascinating first novel is a portrait of Ranji, the cricket player who was "not simply the greatest cricketer of all time, but a fairy tale prince . . . so famous that children sang songs about him, and grown men wept when they saw him play." Buruma weaves...