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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
  • Author(s): Shehan Karunatilaka
  • Location(s): Colombo, Sri Lanka
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Around 1990s

Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet gay, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira lake and he has no idea who killed...

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...

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...

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