Playing the Game
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0374234523 / Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux, August 1991
The narrator travels to India to learn about the life of a legendary cricket player, Ranji, who was part English and part Indian
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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
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