Beggar's Feast - Couverture souple

Boyagoda, Randy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0143050915 ISBN 13 : 9780143050919

Editeur : Penguin Canada, 2012

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Beggar's Feast is a novel about a man who lives in defiance of fate. Sam Kandy was born in 1889 to low prospects in a Ceylon village and died one hundred years later as the wealthy headman of the same village, a self-made shipping magnate, and father of sixteen, three times married and twice widowed. In four parts, this enthralling novel tells Sam's story from his boyhood—when his parents, convinced by his horoscope that he would be a blight upon the family, abandon him at the gates of a distant temple—through his dramatic escape from the temple and journey across Ceylon to Australia and Singapore, before his bold return to the Ceylon village he once called home. There he tries to win recognition for his success in the world—at any cost.

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Pr�sentation de l'�diteur

Revue de presse

A brilliant book (Nadeem Aslam)

A satirical feast (The Globe and Mail)

Ambitious . . . a narrative that spans the whole of the last century (Financial Times)

The story of a Ceylonese Odysseus . . . gleaming, ambitious (New York Times)

Beggar's Feast tackles the grand questions of the 20th century - reinvention, power, sacrifice - but what lies at the heart of this sweeping novel is a more intimate concern: how to find peace in an unforgiving world. In Sam Kandy, Randy Boyagoda has created a truly memorable character (Tash Aw) --(New York Times)

Beggar's Feast