Beggar's Feast
  • Published: 26 February 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241001547
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $22.99

Beggar's Feast

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3 Apr 2014
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26 Feb 2014
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A tour de force of a novel set in Sri Lanka about a man living in defiance of fate

Sam Kandy, born in 1899 in a poor village in the heart of Ceylon, resolves to make his own luck amongst the cheats and chancers of the world. When twenty years reckoning with the streets of Colombo, the docks of Sydney and the brothels of Singapore lead Sam back to Ceylon, he coldly pursues a life of wealth, prestige, and power.

Families are torn apart, fortunes are made and lost, and old ways collide with modernity's new machines and money and desires. Ambition, reinvention, tradition and family each demand an answer: what does it cost a man to rewrite his history?
  • Published: 26 February 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241001547
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $22.99
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Praise for Beggar's Feast

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
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