Books from Sri Lanka
51 popular sri lanka books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Asia Challenge" were written by authors from Sri Lanka.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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Edwin : High King of Britain by Edoardo Albert EN
Description:
A vivid recreation of the rise of the Christian kings of Northumbria
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El Fantasma de Anil by Michael Ondaatje ES
Description:
Sri Lanka, finales de los años 80. La situación de inestabilidad y caos social se recrudece. Dos son los personajes que protagonizan nuestra aventura. Anil, médico forense que debe hacer un informe para las Naciones Unidas y Sarath, un arqueólogo que colabora con ella. Ambos irán tomando conciencia de la catástrofe que vive aquel distante país. Desaparecidos, asesinatos, fosas comunes ... La pareja se dará cuenta de cuán peligrosa podría resultar la curiosidad en un territorio donde reina la anarquía. Lo que suceda aquí les cambiará la vida. Ésta es una novela política que logra retratar con f... continue
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El Paciente Ingles by Michael Ondaatje ES
Description:
With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Each is haunted by the riddle of the fourth member, an English patient -- a nameless, burned man whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminates this book like flashes of heat lightening.
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En los límites del paraíso by Romesh Gunesekera ES
Description:
El Hacía muchacho viaja a la isla tropical dónde nació su abuelo y murió su padre. El abuelo Eldon, que huyó de la isla es quien crio al muchacho; hombre pacifista, cultiva rosas en su jardín y da sabios consejos. El padre, en cambio, un idealista que volvió a la isla de sus ancestros para luchar por la paz.
El muchacho, sin un objetivo claro, camina por los senderos de la isla, hasta que en un estanque: ¡Y conoce a una muchacha! Bella, buena, inteligente, ecologista. Y nace el amor. ¿Qué puede salir mal? A partir de all&iac... continue
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Funny Boy : A Novel by Shyam Selvadurai EN
Description:
A coming of age story about Arjun Chelvaratnam, who struggles with his homosexuality, entering into an affair with a schoolmate and breaking not only sexual taboos, but also social structures that separate the Tamil and Sinhalese.
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In the Skin of a Lion : A Novel by Michael Ondaatje EN
Description:
Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters who reappear in Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning The English Patient. 256 pp.
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Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera EN
Description:
Traces the experiences of two women on opposing sides of the Sri Lankan civil war who connect in unexpected ways when a Tamil aspiring teacher is arrested by soldiers and placed in the path of a young woman from a loving Sinhala family.
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Island of a Thousand Mirrors : A Novel by Nayomi Munaweera EN
Description:
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 child in idyllic Colombo, Yasodhara's and her siblings' lives are shaped by social hierarchies, their parents' ambitions, teenage love and, subtly, the differences between Tamil and Sinhala people; but the peace is shattered by the tragedies of war. Yasodhara's family escapes to Los Angeles. But Yasodhara's life has already become intertwined with a young Tamil girl's... Sar... continue
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Island Witch by Amanda Jayatissa EN
Description:
"Every once in a while, a book comes along that drops you into another world and takes you places you never could imagine. This is that book. An astounding accomplishment!" —R. L. Stine, author of Goosebumps Set in nineteenth-century Sri Lanka and inspired by local folklore, Island Witch follows the daughter of a traditional demon-priest—relentlessly bullied by peers and accused of witchcraft herself—tries to solve the mysterious attacks that have been terrorizing her coastal village. Being the daughter of the village Capuwa, or demon-priest, Amara is used to keeping mostly to herself. Influen... continue
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Las Siete Lunas de Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka ES
Description:
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida -war photographer, gambler, and closet queen- 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 him. In a country where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers, and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts with grudges who cluster round can attest. But even in the afterlife, time is running out for Maali. He has seven moons to contact the man and woman he loves most and lead them to the photos that will rock Sri Lank... continue