Playing the Game

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 12/19/1991
ISBN: 9780374526337
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.55h x 5.55w x 0.61d

Review Citations: Ingram Advance 07/01/1999 pg. 101