It is with no great pleasure that I report that the American edition of Shehan Karunatilaka's multi-award-winning Chinaman: the legend of Pradeep Mathew is to be sold in America under just its subtitle.
Was this, I asked, a weary recognition of the lowlier status of cricket in the States, and/or a late-on realisation that, without very obvious sporting apparatus on the cover, the original title might have side-stepped even quite avid cricket fans?
No, Shehan replies. It's because in America 'the C-word' is deemed 'a racial slur'.
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