Swimming in the Monsoon Sea, , Shyam Selvadurai, Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd., 0144001543

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Swimming in the Monsoon Sea

Shyam Selvadurai (Author)

Synopsis It is 1980 and the monsoon season in Sri Lanka. Fourteen-year-old Amrith faces an uneventful summer in the cheerful, well-to-do household in which he is being raised by his vibrant Aunty Bundle and kindly Uncle Lucky. He tries not to think of his life â€œbefore,â€ when his loving mother was still alive. Amrithâ€™s holiday plans seem unpromising until, like an unexpected shower, his cousin arrives from Canada. Amrithâ€™s ordered life becomes storm-tossed as he falls in love with the boy. Shakespeareâ€™s Othello, with its powerful theme of disastrous jealousy, is the backdrop to the drama in which Amrith finds himself immersed. A coming of age book for mature readers, Swimming in the Monsoon Sea explores first love in all its complexity and turmoil.

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About the author

Shyam Selvadurai

Shyam Selvadurai was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and went to Canada at the age of nineteen. His first novel, Funny Boy, published in 1994, became a bestseller and won the W.H. Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award. In the U.S., it won the Lambada Literary Award and was named a Notable Book by the American Library Association. His second novel, Cinnamon Gardens, was shortlisted for the Trillium Award and published internationally. Both books have been published by Penguin India. He is the editor of Story-wallah! A Celebration of South Asian Fiction. Shyam Selvadurai lives in Toronto.

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