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- 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...
- Location(s): Sri Lanka
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Centry
Vasantha is a van driver for hire, ferrying aid workers, returning exiles, and tentative entrepreneurs across the battle-scarred landscapes of Sri Lanka. The civil war is finally over, but the traumas of the past are still haunting. Behind the...
Not Quite Paradise: An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka
- 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,...
- Location(s): Nuwara Eliya
- Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 1930s
In this third instalment of The Inspector de Silva Mysteries, there’s great excitement when a professional theatre company comes to Nuala. However matters take a dark turn when the company’s actor manager is brutally murdered. Inspector de Silva has...
- Location(s): Sri Lanka
- Genre(s): Mystery, Fantasy
- Era(s): Mythic times of the Ramayana
This is a short story…. Sita Devi, the wife of Lord Rama has been abducted by the Demon King Raavana. Hanuman, the Ape hero, is tasked with building a bridge to facilitate the invasion of Lanka. The expedition is...
- Location(s): Sri Lanka
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
A single lighted match banishes Triton from his father’s home to the employ of Mister Salgado, a marine biologist obsessed by swamps, sea movements and a Sri Lankan island’s disappearing reef. Stranded in London years later, Triton plumbs the...
- Location(s): Sri Lanka
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 20th Century
Twenty-five years after leaving his native Sri Lanka for the cool winters of Ontario, a chaotic dream of tropical heat and barking dogs pushes Michael Ondaatje to travel back home and revisit a childhood and a family he never...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), South Africa, Sri Lanka
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 1700s
Calcutta, 1757. Bengal is on the brink of war. The East India Company, led by the fearsome Sir Peter Chilcott, are advancing and nobody is safe. Meena, the Nawab’s neglected and abused daughter, finds herself falling under the spell...