Ian Buruma — PLAYING THE GAME

Hardcover, hardcover; 232pp.; Gebonden boek met losse stofomslag 1991. Boek in uitstekende staat met fris en schoon binnenwerk. NB NB met de vulpen een opdracht gekrabbeld op het schutblad. Recht boekblok.Puntgave boekband. Losse omslag onderkant strak en scherp, bovenkant rafeltje. Rug en achterplat wat verkleuring. -- Conditie: Goed; Hardback. Neville Cardus suspected that K. S. Ranjisinhji, the legendary Indian prince who played cricket for Sussex and MCC at the turn of the century, was 'perhaps a dream, all dreamed on some midsummer's night long ago'. This book is the autho's absorbing and richly entertaining re-invention of Ranji's life - a novel imagining itself a biography. It reveals a man, confused and desperate to find an identity for himself - an adopted English gentleman, an adopted Indian prince - sometimes both, in the end, probably neither. he died in 1933, his balding pet parrot at his side. This book is about Englishness, cultural identity, impersonation and pretending, a book about real people, imagined people, and those who don't know the difference.; Engels; ISBN10: 0224027581, ISBN13: 9780224027588