Award-winning writer Shyam Selvadurai introduced his new book

Shyam Selvadurai introduced his latest book The Hungry Ghosts on Friday 23rd August 2013 at 10am at the Department of English.

SHYAM SELVADURAI is the acclaimed author of the best-selling novels Funny Boy, which was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and Cinnamon Gardens, which was shortlisted for the Trillium Award and sold around the world. He has also written a novel for young adults, Swimming in the Monsoon Sea, which was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award. Born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Selvadurai now lives in Toronto and Sri Lanka.

His latest work, The Hungry Ghosts moves between Toronto and war-torn Sri Lanka of the 1980s and 1990s and tells an intense and absorbing story of one man’s restless search for redemption.The Hungry Ghosts is a beautifully written, dazzling story of family, wealth and the long reach of the past. It shows how racial, political and sexual differences can tear apart both a country and the human heart—not just once, but many times, until the ghosts are fed and freed.