Blogs in January 2015

A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Cemetery 23rd January 2015

To begin this chronicle of the funny things that have happened to him, Muller goes back to his days as a recruit in the Royal Ceylon Navy when the Queen of England came a-visiting: the saucy sailors decide to...

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Anil’s Ghost 23rd January 2015

Anil’s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war. Enter Anil Tissera, a young woman and forensic anthropologist born in...

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Monsoons and Potholes 23rd January 2015

There is humour and satire in this story, one little boy growing up in Sri Lanka in the 1970s and 80s. Superstition, mindless violence, politics – a background to the country today brought to life in a very readable...

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Island of a Thousand Mirrors 10th October 2014

Before violence tore apart the tapestry of Sri Lanka and turned its pristine beaches red, there were two families. Yasodhara tells the story of her own Sinhala family, rich in love, with everything they could ask for. As a...

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Chinaman 1st January 1970

Ambitious, playful and strikingly original, Chinaman is a novel about cricket and Sri Lanka – and the story of modern day Sri Lanka through its most cherished sport. Hailed by the Gratiaen Prize judges as ‘one of the most...

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