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Book Launch
Panther
If you're a former child soldier, being accepted into an elite
international school on a cricket scholarship doesn't mean your life is
going to change. Except it does, because hunky Indika - I for Indika, I
for Incredible - takes you under his wing, drags you to posh restaurants
and shows you pictures from glossy magazines of women who ... well,
never mind, that's not the point. The point is: if your best friend
snogs your girlfriend, can he still be Incredible? Was he ever? But
don't sweat the small stuff. There are cricket matches to win,
examinations to pass, a horrifying past to forget, a sinister
schoolmaster to avoid ... and, of course, a first kiss to finally
experience. Prabu's life is never going to be the same again.
  Funny,
diamond-sharp and unapologetic, Panther is a novel about that familiar,
fractured passage to adulthood that can make us magnificent if it does
not kill us.
After the critical and commercial success of 'The Amazing Racist',
the release of 'Panther', ChhimiTenduf-La's second book, is eagerly
awaited. Published by HarperCollins India, 'Panther' will be released in
Sri Lanka before the official launch elsewhere. The book is expected to
be available in all leading Sri Lankan bookstores by 15th June 2015.
Says Tenduf-La: "Although I have attempted to inject humour into
'Panther', i t is a harder-hitting and more disturbing book than 'The
Amazing Racist'. In my opinion, it is a much better novel, but I guess
that is for others to judge. Test readers have said they liked the
suspense and plot twists and found the characters more relatable and
endearing. My wife took 196 days to read my first book, but finished
Panther in one sitting, even missing an episode of the Kardashians in
the process which really worried me.
"I set out to write a coming-of-age, fish-out-of-water high school
story, but the book also explores the trauma of being a child soldier,
and although it will look like I am writing about the war here, I am
not. I have made up a terrorist group, the Panthers, because I think it
would be arrogant of me to pretend to know the ins and outs of the real
war here.'
Chhimi Tenduf-La will be at Barefoot Café Book Shop between 11.00
a.m. and 4.30p.m. on 20th June 2015 to sign copies of 'Panther'
purchased there.
Panther will be
available at Barefoot, Vijitha Yapa, Trunk (Cinnamon Grand and Ramada),
Odel, Paradise Road, Sarasavi, MD Gunesena and Expographics. It will
also be available online at Takas.lk.
For more information
please contact
Pia Hatch 0777274483
[email protected]
Rajakumarkavo
Award winning writer Gunaratne Ekanayake's new novel titled
Rajakumarikavo will be launched at Nipun Book Shop, Soysapura, Moratuwa
at 9. a.m. on June 19 |
