![]() ![]() ![]() Shehan never imagined that his novel would be read all over the world. The narrator WG Karunasena is a drunkard, who is determined to trace Pradeep Mathew, a Sri Lankan cricketer, who is an expert in the ‘chinaman’ technique of bowling. Above all, it is a lucidly written, humorous story. The novel is unlike some of the serious novels that have emerged from the diaspora it is a tale on cricket with the issue of Sinhalese-Tamilian conflict skilfully woven in. ![]() That’s when the story kicked into gear.”Ĭhinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew won the 2012 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. and saw this drunk guy slumped on a chair, tanked up on a bottle, telling a story, which I wrote it was almost like transcribing someone else’s words. ![]() Then after a month, I starting waking up naturally at 3.59 a.m. I would surf the Net, take a nap and nothing would happen. For the first month, I kind of sat half asleep in front of my computer at four in the morning. “I started writing early morning before work. Although the idea of writing about cricket had been with Shehan Karunatilaka for sometime, the story ofĬhinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew occurred when the protagonist, Wijedasa Gamini Karunasena (WG)’s voice, emerged off the page. ![]()
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