Playing the Game

By Ian Buruma

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374526338
• ISBN13: 9780374526337
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.6"