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The Golden Wave

The Golden Wave
  • Author(s): Michele Ruth Gamburd
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2004

n December 2004 the Indian Ocean tsunami devastated coastal regions of Sri Lanka. Six months later, Michele Ruth Gamburd returned to the village where she had been conducting research for many years and began collecting residents’ stories of the...

A Year In Green Tea and Tuks-Tuks

A Year In Green Tea and Tuks-Tuks
  • Author(s): Rory Spowers
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

BBC journalist and environmentalist Rory Spowers wanted to finally live his dream and abandon life in London for a more ecologically sustainable lifestyle. Moving with his wife and two toddler sons to a 60-acre abandoned tea estate in Sri...

What Lies Between Us

What Lies Between Us
  • Author(s): Nayomi Munaweera
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ganga, a young girl, grows up carefree in the midst of her loving family in an old and beautiful house nestled in the idyllic hill country of Sri Lanka. Her childhood is like any other–until it isn’t. A cherished...

Bodies in Motion

Bodies in Motion
  • Author(s): Mary Anne Mohanraj
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Like the sweet heat of a palate-pleasing curry or the brilliant radiance of bougainvillea, the short stories in Mary Anne Mohanraj’s Bodies in Motion will delight the senses and sensibilities. Her tales follow two generations of two families living...

The Match

The Match
  • Author(s): Romesh Gunesekera
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

As a teenager from Sri Lanka, Sunny liked to play cricket. But none of his new friends in Manila were remotely interested. That is until the gorgeous Tina arrived, all poise and perfection. Three decades on, Sunny is settled...

The Sandglass

The Sandglass
  • Author(s): Romesh Gunesekera
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

The Sandglass tells the story of two feuding families whose lives are interlinked by the changing fortunes of postcolonial Sri Lanka. Moving back and forth between London and Sri Lanka, the novel brings to life Prins Ducal and his...

Tamil Tigress

Tamil Tigress
  • Author(s): Niromi de Soyza
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1987

Two days before Christmas in 1987, at the age of 17, Niromi de Soyza found herself in an ambush as part of a small platoon of militant Tamil Tigers fighting government forces in the bloody civil war that was...

Monkfish Moon

Monkfish Moon
  • Author(s): Romesh Gunesekera
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

This vivid and haunting short-story collection flows smoothly together to create a masterful portrait of contemporary Sri Lanka; a country of teeming natural beauty, with a society in turmoil. A married couple, living in London, find their marriage strained...

The Amazing Racist

The Amazing Racist
  • Author(s): Chhimi Tenduf-La
  • Location(s): Colombo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Eddie trusted, an english school teacher in colombo, wants to spend his life with menaka rupasinghe, a vibrant sri lankan beauty, but her orthodox terror of a father stands in his way. If eddie wants to wed menaka, it...

The Beach at Galle Road

The Beach at Galle Road
  • Author(s): Joanna Luloff
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1983

When rumors of civil war between the ruling Sinhalese and the Tamils in the northern sector of Sri Lanka reach those who live in the south, somehow it seems not to be happening in their own country. At least...

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