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    The Match

    By Romesh Gunesekera

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    As a teenager from Sri Lanka, Sunny liked to play cricket. But none of his new friends in Manila were remotely interested. That is until the gorgeous Tina arrived, all poise and perfection. Three decades on, Sunny is settled in London with a teenage son of his own. But despite the quiet comfort of his life, he feels unmoored. Trying to reconnect with his past, he goes to watch the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team play at the Oval. As the sun goes down at the end of the match he realises that love, like cricket, is more than just a game. He sees one last chance to get his life into focus, if only there is time.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateFeb 7, 2012
    ISBN9781408832257
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    Romesh Gunesekera

    Romesh Gunesekera is the author of many acclaimed works of fiction including Reef, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The Sandglass, winner of the inaugural BBC Asia Award, and The Match, the ground-breaking cricket novel. His debut collection of stories, Monk?sh Moon, was a New York Times Notable Book. His last book Noontide Toll captured a vital moment in post-war Sri Lanka. His fiction has been translated into over a dozen languages and he is the recipient of many awards including a Premio Mondello in Italy. He was born in Colombo and lives in London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. www.romeshgunesekera.com

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    • 3/5
      Not at all what I expected, but interesting nonetheless. The whole thing felt a little numb, I guess, and it just glided along. But I liked the writing, and it's different than the kind of thing I normally read. The multi-cultural aspects were interesting.
    • 3/5
      Cricket is one of the odder legacies of British imperialism. In this story of the Sri Lankan diaspora in the Philippines and Britain, Gunesekera uses cricket matches - at one end an amateur game between teams of expats, at the other a test match and a one-day international - to provide the defining moments in the narrative, much as the British schoolboy fiction of the great days of New Imperialism used to. His central character, Sunny, feels disconnected from life - living in places he has no real connection with and without any obvious family network. It's only the collective experience of the match that - ironic though its colonial origins are - helps him to regain a sense of belonging and realise that he is loved and capable of loving. I enjoyed the detail of this book, and I liked the way Gunesekera keeps cheating us of neat narrative resolutions, but I felt it was straining a bit too much to make the cricket thing work effectively.