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by Shyam Selvadurai
Semi autobiographical novel- follows the life of a family through the writer's eyes as he struggles to come to terms with his homosexuality and with the racism of the society in which he lives- repeating with quiet conviction that the human condition can, in spite of everything, be joyful.
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by Romesh Gunasekera
Short listed for the Booker prize in 1994, Reef is a love story set in a spoiled paradise, naive and knowing, fearful and brave, the voice of a boy becoming a man in a world stumbling to the brink of chaos. |
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by Arthur C.Clarke
A must for any sci fi addict, based on a country which strongly resembles Sri Lanka- here at the foot of the Rock, he had conceived and created paradise; it only remained, upon its summit, to build heaven. "An extraordinary dynamo of ideas that transcend Science Fiction".
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by Carl Muller
Winner of the 1993 Gratiaen Memorial Prize for best work in English Literature. 1st part of the Burgher Trilogy.
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by Romesh Gunasekera
The book’s protagonist, Marc, is a man in search of a father or perhaps in search of himself. On traveling to Sri Lanka, Marc slowly realizes that a world you care so much for, which you believe in, has to be protected.
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by Michael Ondaatje
This novel won Ondaatje the Booker Prize and whilst the subject has nothing to do with Sri Lanka, it made people around the world aware of Sri Lanka’s contribution to English Literature, and as a result Ondaatje set up the Gratien Memorial Prize which is presented annually to the best Sri Lankan writing in the English language.
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by Michelle De Kretser
Reminiscent of The remains of the day, De Kretser has given us a classic whodunit wrapped up in a beautiful and tragic literary novel. “Winner of the Encore award”.
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by Carl Muller
Final book on the Burgher Trilogy. Live the life of a Burgher family through following the hilarious, affectionate, candid and moving lives of the Von Bloss family....the Burghers believed in living life to the hilt. Every situation occasions wild revels; there is nothing that cannot be solved through a brawl.
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by Michael Ondaatje
Sri Lanka's greatest living author: semi autobiographical account of the author's search for his "roots".
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by Anne Ranasinghe
A Jewish refugee from Hitler’s Germany, she married a Sri Lankan, and brings broader perspectives to bear on the conflicts of her adopted land.
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by Yasmine Gooneratne
A novel of the post-colonial nineties - Gooneratne's urbane wit produces an ambitious design which subsumes myth, culture, politics, social commentary and satire, and stretches into two continents and centuries.
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by Carl Muller
Continuing the tales of the endearing Bloss family.
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by Shyam Selvadurai
A compulsively readable novel set in the 1920's about prejudice and love.
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by Romesh Gunasekera
Among the secrets that Prins Ducal’s mother has taken with her to the grave is the mystery of his father’s accidental death 40 years earlier. With the help of his friend Chip, his mother’ ex lover and confidante, Prins sets out to uncover the truth.
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by Romesh Gunasekera
A collection of short stories - behind the tropic lushness of spice gardens, flame trees and frangipani, violence and viciousness hides.
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by Romesh Gunasekera
A collection of short stories - behind the tropic lushness of spice gardens, flame trees and frangipani, violence and viciousness hides. |
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by Leonard Woolf
Although perhaps better known for being the husband of Virgina Woolf, Leonard spent 7 years in the Ceylon Civil Service. This novel reflects his fascination with the people who lived in the jungle villages of Ceylon. It is also, writes Woolf, "in some curious way the symbol of the anti imperialism which has been growing upon me more and more in my last few years in Ceylon." This book is probably the best novel on Sinhalese life ever written in the English language. |
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by Robert Standish
The epitaph to a more spacious and colourful epoch whose tail end the author was privileged to see. Relive the relaxed lifestyles of the planters; romance, intrigue and frivolity mixed with blood, sweat and tears.
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by Carl Muller
2nd part of the Burgher Trilogy.
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by Michael Ondaatje
Set in Sri Lanka’s gruesome war of the 1980’s, this novel explores that territory where the personal and political intersect in the fulcrum of war, it illuminates the human condition through pity and terror…every side was killing and hiding the evidence, this is an unofficial war, no one wants to alienate the foreign powers.
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by Carl Muller
A book which loosely traces the history of Colombo, but also makes us very aware of the battle being fought today by major vested interests and those struggling to survive.
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by Pradeep Jeganathan
Seven interlinked short stories that might make you want to go down to the water’s edge. A moving snapshot of the contemporary Sri Lankan condition.
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by Jeanne Cambrai
A whodunit but which also provides a fascinating glimpse of life in Sri Lanka today.
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by Jinadasa Vijaya-Tunga
The first work by a Sri Lankan that brought the country before an international readership.
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by Karen Roberts
An extremely moving novel about two young lovers - one Tamil,
one Sinhalese - caught up in the riots in Sri Lanka in June
1983. A Sri Lankan Romeo and Juliet.
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by Jean Arasanayagam
Sri Lanka’s principal poet in English, her Burgher background was superseded by marriage to a Tamil that led her to suffer as a refugee during the ethnic problems that overtook the country in 80’s.
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by Jean Arasanayagam
Seven brilliant stories about war and rebellion, displacement and dispossession and about what it means to be a Sri Lankan today.
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by Shiromi Pinto
A patchwork of Black and Asian urban life. Trussed is a compelling tragic comedy described by the Times as "fast, blackly and funny and so cool that it hurts. Trussed makes use of the author's Sri Lankan descent to inform her portrayal of multiculturalism in London".
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by A Sivanandan
A powerful three generation saga of a Sri Lankan family's search for coherence and continuity in a country broken by colonial occupation and driven by ethnic wars.
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by Shyam Selvadurai
Selvadurai, who wrote so gracefully for adults, now does the same for teens.
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