Swimming in the Monsoon Sea Book
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RELEASE DATE - 5 MAY 2022
The setting is Sri Lanka, 1980, and it is the season of monsoons. Fourteen-year-old Amrith is caught up in the life of the cheerful, well-to-do household in which he is being raised by his vibrant Auntie Bundle and kindly Uncle Lucky.
He tries not to think of his life 'before,' when his doting mother was still alive.
Amrith's holiday plans seem unpromising: he wants to appear in his school's production of Othello and he is learning to type at Uncle Lucky's tropical fish business.
Then, like an unexpected monsoon, his cousin arrives from Canada and Amrith's ordered life is storm-tossed.
He finds himself falling in love with the Canadian boy. Othello, with its powerful theme of disastrous jealousy, is the backdrop to the drama in which Amrith finds himself immersed.
"As lush and languid as its Sri Lanka setting...What captures readers is the way the story rolls in waves, mimicking how Amrith looks at himself, then looks away. The luxuriant language with details of architecture and verdant gardens doesn't call attention to itself, but refreshes like a breeze. Selvadurai, who wrote so gracefully for adults...now does the same for teens."
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| Author | Shyam Selvadurai |
| Format | Paperback |
| Pages | 274 |
| ISBN | 9781774880333 |
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