Book details
Playing the Game
A Novel
Author: Ian Buruma
Playing the Game
$21.00
Trade Paperback
About This Book
On Sale
11/01/1999
Book Details
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 the adventures of an unnamed narrator together with a (fictional) undiscovered memoir of Ranji to create a witty and reverbatory meditation on England, India and the post-colonial sense of self.
Imprint Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN
9780374526337
In The News
Ian Buruma’s ‘Playing the Game’ is an unusual delight for the cricket lovers — a novel on the life of KS Ranjitsinhji. -Arunabha Sengupta, Cricket Country