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- 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
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...