PLAYING THE GAME

Auteur Ian Buruma

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ISBN

9780224027588

Bindwijze

Hardcover

Taal

Engels , Overig

Auteur

Ian Buruma

Aantal pagina's

232

Waar gaat het over?

Hardback. Neville Cardus suspected that K. S. Ranjisinhji, the legendary Indian prince who played cricket for Sussex and MCC at the turn of the century, was 'perhaps a dream, all dreamed on some midsummer's night long ago'. This book is the autho's absorbing and richly entertaining re-invention of Ranji's life - a novel imagining itself a biography. It reveals a man, confused and desperate to find an identity for himself - an adopted English gentleman, an adopted Indian prince - sometimes both, in the end, probably neither. he died in 1933, his balding pet parrot at his side. This book is about Englishness, cultural identity, impersonation and pretending, a book about real people, imagined people, and those who don't know the difference.

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