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In Shyam Selvadurai's remarkable debut novel, a boy's bitter sweet passage to maturity and sexual awakening is set against escalating political tensions in SriLanka during seven years up to 1983 riots. The novel explores a Tamil Boy's struggle to negotiate life in Sinhala- dominated Colombo while also coming to terms with his emergent same - sex desire. Funny boy set in Srilanka, but written from Canada by an exiled Srilankan born Tamil, intervenes in the country's contemporary geographies of difference. The novel explores a Tamil Boy's struggle to negotiate life in Sinhala- dominated Colombo while also coming to terms with his emergent same - sex desire. This study engages with the representation of queer identities to scrutinize homosexuality and homosexual relationships in the selected Sri Lankan English Fiction. The novels of Shyam Selvadurai give a brilliant portrait of the anxieties aroused by gender non-conformity, especially in patriarchal societies.