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      Playing the Game

      by Ian Buruma
      Published
      Dec 1991
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      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      244
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      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.

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      First Edition Nov 1999 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0374526338
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      Aug 1991 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0374234523
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