The Booker Prize-nominated author's brilliant new novel about growing up,
growing apart, and finding one's place in the world.
As a teenager from Sri Lanka, Sunny is living the typical life of an expatriate
in 1970s Manila--a privileged, carefree existence--until one day when the secret
behind his mother's tragic death years earlier is accidentally revealed to him,
turning Sunny's world upside down. His life takes a series of unexpected
turns--first in England, where he falls in love with the luminous Clara, and
later in Sri Lanka, where he returns during a brief lull in the country's brutal
ethnic war.
Reminiscent of V. S. Naipaul in his