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Gay Fiction

Drôle de garçon

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  • 1994 first published
  • 314 pages
  • 25 editions
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Drôle de garçon is a 1994 gay fiction novel by Shyam Selvadurai. The story is set in Sri Lanka. Key subjects include gay men, young men, Gay and stonewall Book Awards.

130 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 25 editions across 6 languages.

It runs to roughly 314 pages — 5–6 hours of reading at an average pace.

About Drôle de garçon

Arjie is funny. The second son of a privileged family in Sri Lanka, he prefers staging make-believe wedding pageants with his female cousins to battling balls with the other boys. When his parents discover his innocent pastime, Arjie is forced to abandon his idyllic childhood games and adopt the rigid rules of an adult world. Bewildered by his incipient sexual awakening, mortified by the bloody Tamil-Sinhalese conflicts that threaten to tear apart his homeland, Arjie painfully grows toward manhood and an understanding of his own different identity.
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Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Setting

  • Sri Lanka

Subjects

  • Gay men
  • Young men
  • Sri lanka
  • Domestic fiction
  • Gay
  • Fiction - General
  • Unabridged Audio - Fiction/General
  • LGBTQ novels
  • Stonewall Book Awards
  • Lambda Literary Awards
  • Lambda Literary Award Winner
  • Gay lgbtq+

Quick answers

Who wrote Drôle de garçon?

Drôle de garçon was written by Shyam Selvadurai and first published in 1994.

What genre is Drôle de garçon?

It is usually shelved as Gay Fiction.

How long is Drôle de garçon?

The median edition has 314 pages, about 5–6 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Drôle de garçon?

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