THE BIRTH LOTTERY AND OTHER SURPRISES: FROM THE WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022

'It's a simple car bomb and it's rigged to a busload of schoolgirls. No one knows it is there except for me.'Unpleasant truths await a Sri Lankan president in the back of a London cab. An advertising agency has to come to terms with a blown-up collection of pictures of its employees' penises. A man presumed missing quietly journals by the sea. A being dispassionately recalls the numerous births it had taken and absurd fates it had to endure. An Englishman a Dutchman and a Portuguese man walk into a Ceylon bar with grand narcotic designs.A masterful blend of dry wit morbid charm and earnest observations Booker-winning author Shehan Karunatilaka's The Birth Lottery and Other Surprises is a collection of fantastic short stories that serves up fantasies for both doomsday and everyday marking the return of one of South Asia's most compelling storytellers.