Shehan Karunatilaka is a Sri Lankan author who won the Booker Prize in 2022 for The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. He is one of the most inventive and celebrated voices in contemporary world literature.
Chinaman (also published as Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew) is a darkly comic, deeply original novel about an alcoholic journalist searching for a forgotten Sri Lankan cricketing genius. The novel uses cricket as a lens through which to explore Sri Lanka's recent history, ethnic conflict, corruption, and the unreliability of memory and national myth.
Karunatilaka's audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers brilliantly original, genre-defying fiction. His work appeals to cricket lovers, literary fiction fans, and anyone who appreciates novels that combine dark humour, inventive storytelling, and profound engagement with political reality.
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