Beggar's Feast

*NEW YORK TIMES, BOOK REVIEW EDITOR''S CHOICE*


*NOMINATED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY PRIZE*


Randy Boyagoda''s Beggar''s Feast is a tour de force of a novel set in Sri Lanka about a man living in defiance of fate.



''Gleaming . . . An ambitious book that seeks to convey the sweep of history through the prism of one island'' Sara Wheeler, New York Times


Sam Kandy, born in a poor village and abandoned by ...