Bøger af Randy Boyagoda

Wordsworth wrote that the child is the father to the man, and in On Fatherhood, Randy Boyagoda asks why that might be. Matching his own personal experience¿he has four daughters and cares for his own eighty-year old father¿to a great array of reading and watching, On Fatherhood is a wide-ranging exploration of the joyful difficulties, and difficult joys, of being a father in the twenty-first century.

"e;A Divine Comedy of our times."e;-John Irving, author of The World According to Garp"e;This book is a miracle."e;-Junot Daz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoA Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021Following Original Prin, a NYTBR Editor's Choice and Globe and Mail Best Book, Dante's Indiana is an extraordinary journey through the divine comedies and tragedies of our time. Middle-aged, married, but living on his own, Prin has lost his way. Desperate for money and purpose, he moves to small-town Indiana to work for an evangelical millionaire who's building a theme park inspired by Dante's Inferno. He quickly becomes involved in the difficult lives of his co-workers and in the wider struggles of their opioid-ravaged community while trying to reconcile with his distant wife and distant God. Both projects spin out of control, and when a Black teenager is killed, creationists, politicians and protesters alike descend. In the midst of this American chaos, Prin risks everything to help the lost and angry souls around him while searching for his own way home. Affecting and strange, intimate and big-hearted, Dante's Indiana is a darkly divine comedy for our time.

*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 his family ten years later at a remote temple, resolves to make his own luck amongst the cheats and chancers of the world.He returns to his birth village as a steely self-made man. He marries a nobleman's daughter and coldly pursues a life of wealth, prestige, and power. And so begins a devastating chain of eventsBeggar's Feast is a masterpiece - a raw, profound and magnificent novel about origins and endings, about what we forsake to survive.'Ambitious . . . a narrative that spans the whole of the last century', Financial Times 'A brilliant book. This novel reminds us of the values we are taught as children but which we might forget as we enter adulthood' Nadeem Aslam, author of The Blind Man's Garden Randy Boyagoda's first novel, Governor of the Northern Province, was nominated for the ScotiaBank Giller Prize in 2006. He has written for a variety of publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Paris Review, and Harper's Magazine. He lives in Toronto with his wife and four daughters.