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The
Village in the Jungle
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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The
Fountains of Paradise
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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Elephant
Walk
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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The
Jam Fruit Tree
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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Yakada
Yaka
by Carl Muller
2nd part of the Burgher Trilogy.
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Spit
and Polish
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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Running
in the Family
by Michael Ondaatje
Sri Lanka's greatest living author: semi autobiographical account
of the author's search for his "roots". |
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Desire
and Other Stories
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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The
Pleasures of conquest
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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Once
Upon a Tender Time
by Carl Muller
Continuing the tales of the endearing Bloss family. |
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Cinnamon
Gardens
by Shyam Selvadurai
A compulsively readable novel set in the 1920's about prejudice
and love. |
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The
Sandglass
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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Monkfish
Moon
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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Heavens
Edge
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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The
English Patient
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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Anils
Ghost
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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Colombo
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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The
Hamilton Case
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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At
the Waters Edge
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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Murder
in the Pettah
by Jeanne Cambrai
A whodunit but which also provides a fascinating glimpse of
life in Sri Lanka today. |
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Grass
for my feet
by Jinadasa Vijaya-Tunga
The first work by a Sri Lankan that brought the country before
an international readership. |
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July
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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All
is Burning
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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In
the Garden Secretly
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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Trussed
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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When
memory Dies
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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Swimming in the Monsoon Sea
by Shyam Selvadurai
Selvadurai, who wrote so gracefully for adults, now does the
same for teens. |
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