The book was as much a study of Sri Lanka’s recent political history as of its cricket team, perennial underdogs whose influence on the modern game is easily as profound as that of the legendary West Indies led by Clive Lloyd. Readers unmoved by the charms of cricket should not be fazed by the praise it received from Wisden (it was runner-up in its list of greatest cricket books ever written). That book, following the rise and mysterious vanishing of an improbably talented Sri Lankan bowler, was first self-published, but has since come to be firmly established as a classic of modern South Asian fiction. Admirers of his cracking debut, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew (2010), have been wondering what became of Shehan Karunatilaka.
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