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The Sweet And Simple Kind

The Sweet And Simple Kind
  • Author(s): Yasmine Gooneratne
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1948

Loyalty (and the damnable lack of it in his wife) was the thought uppermost in the mind of Sir Andrew Millbanke as he looked down at Lady Alexandra’s dead body, spread-eagled on the paved pathway of the Residency.’ And...

Serendipity

Serendipity
  • Author(s): Ashok Ferrey
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka
  • Genre(s): Satire, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s

Ashok Ferrey’s first novel is part satire, part thriller, part comedy of manners. Set in 1980s Colombo it contains over twenty characters, Which he fixes with merciless wit and pin-sharp accuracy to the dusty velvet boards of his cabinet...

Wave: A Memoir of Life After the Tsunami

Wave: A Memoir of Life After the Tsunami
  • Author(s): Sonali Deraniyagala
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2004

The book opens and we are inside the wave: thirty feet high, moving at twenty-five mph, racing two miles inland. And from there into the depths of the author’s despair: how to live now that her life has been...

The Village in the Jungle

The Village in the Jungle
  • Author(s): Leonard Woolf
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): early 20th century

This classic novel of colonial Ceylon (Sri Lanka), was first published in 1913 and is written by a prominent member of the Bloomsbury group, husband of Virginia Woolf. It reads as if Thomas Hardy had been born among the...

The Flower Boy

The Flower Boy
  • Author(s): Karen Roberts
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

An accomplished debut, The Flower Boy is the tragically romantic story of people from two cultures, one ruling the other, and the human passions that defy and nearly overcome social taboos. In the colonial society of 1930s Ceylon, the...

July

July
  • Author(s): Karen Roberts
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1983

Priyanthi Silva is born in Sri Lanka into a peaceful, loving Sinhalese family, but into a turbulent country dogged by religious and political tensions. She and her brother Hemantha grow up in Araliya Gardens, a tropical paradise full of...

Not Quite Paradise: An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka

Not Quite Paradise: An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka
  • Author(s): Adele Barker
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): early 2000s

A chronicle of life on the resplendent island, combining the immediacy of memoir with the vividness of travelogue and reportage   Adele Barker and her son, Noah, settled into the central highlands of Sri Lanka for an eighteen-month sojourn,...

The Road From Elephant Pass

The Road From Elephant Pass
  • Author(s): Nihal de Silva
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Adventure
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

Brand new 14th edition direct from publisher in Sri Lanka. now a major motion picture. The exciting story of an Army captain who has to escort a Liberation Tigers of Tamil eelam (LTTE) female terrorist across hostile territory dangerous...

Funny Boy

Funny Boy
  • Author(s): Shyam Selvadurai
  • Location(s): Colombo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

In the world of his large family, affluent Tamils living in Colombo, Arjie is an oddity, a ‘funny boy’ who prefers dressing as a girl to playing cricket with his brother. In FUNNY BOY we follow the life of...

Cinnamon Gardens

Cinnamon Gardens
  • Author(s): Shyam Selvadurai
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

Lush and beautiful, Cinnamon Gardens is a story of intertwined lives in the gracious world of Ceylon in the 1920s In a novel of exceptional achievement, Shyam Selvadurai evokes the life of the upper classes of Colombo’s wealthy suburb,...

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