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Shyam selvadurai, who is now a citizen of canada, and has been residing in toronto for years, is a sri lankan by birth. About swimming in the monsoon sea nominated for the governor generals literary awards 2005, childrens literature, text the setting is sri lanka, 1980, and it. Swimming in the monsoon sea book pima county public. He is on summer vacation from his allboys school, and right when he thought his summer would be encompassing a lot of long and uneventful days, his cousin niresh visits him from canada. Swimming in the monsoon sea paperback 15 may 2011 by shyam selvadurai author visit amazons shyam selvadurai page. Swimming in the monsoon sea is another partly heartbreaking story of first loves. Swimming in the monsoon sea is for readers ages 16 and up. There were times when i thought that amrith was a lot more gullible than a fourteenyearold boy would be.
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Jun 09, 2009 swimming in the monsoon sea is a very good book, but its not perfect. Um, i mean, a sexual awakening, whatever but that doesnt always make it very interesting. The story takes place in sri lanka, a place where at least in the 80s, when the novel takes place homosexuality is not something thats common or even talked about. Fourteenyearold amrith is caught up in the life of the cheerful, welltodo household in which he is being raised by his vibrant auntie bundle and kindly uncle.