Books set in Sri Lanka (30)
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A Disobedient Girl : A Novel by Ru Freeman EN
Sri LankaDescription:
Longing for sophistication in spite of her limited prospects as a servant, Sri Lankan-born Latha strives for the dignity and freedoms enjoyed by the privileged daughter of her employers, while Biso, a devoted mother, flees her abusive husband in search of a better life in the mountains. A first novel.
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A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam EN
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 It begins with a message: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother''s former care-giver, Rani, has died in unexpected circumstances, at the bottom of a well in her village in the north, her neck broken by the fall. The news arrives on the heels of an email from Anjum, an activist he fell in love with four years earlier while living in Delhi, bringing with it the stirring of distant memories and desires. As Krishan makes the long journey by train from Colombo into the war-torn Northern Province for the funeral, so begins a passage into the so... continue
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Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje EN
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With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize—winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing. 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 civil war. Into this maelstrom steps Anil Tissera, a young woman born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, who returns to her homeland as a forensic anthropolog... continue
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Blue-Skinned Gods by SJ Sindu EN
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From the award-winning author of Marriage of a Thousand Lies comes a brilliantly written, globe-spanning novel about identity, faith, family, and sexuality. In Tamil Nadu, India, a boy is born with blue skin. His father sets up an ashram, and the family makes a living off of the pilgrims who seek the child’s blessings and miracles, believing young Kalki to be the tenth human incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu. In Kalki’s tenth year, he is confronted with three trials that will test his power and prove his divine status and, his father tells him, spread his fame worldwide. While he seems to pa... continue
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Brixton Beach by Roma Tearne EN
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London. On a bright July morning a series of bombs brings the capital to a halt. Simon Swann, a medic from one of the large teaching hospitals, is searching frantically amongst the chaos and the rubble. All around police sirens and ambulances are screaming but Simon does not hear. He is out of breath because he has been running, and he is distraught. But who is he looking for?
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Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshananthan EN
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New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A courageous young Sri Lankan woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor in this “heartbreaking exploration of a family fractured by civil war” (Brit Bennett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half). “This book, a careful, vivid exploration of what’s lost within a community when life and thought collapse toward binary conflict, rang softly for me as a novel for our own country in this odd time.”—Nathan Heller, The New Yorker AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • WINNER OF THE CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION, THE WOMEN’S PRIZE... continue
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Chinaman : The Legend of Pradeep Mathew by Shehan Karunatilaka EN
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Based on the life of Pradeep Sivanathan Mathew, b. 1965, Sri Lanka test cricket bowler.
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Cinnamon Gardens by Shyam Selvadurai EN
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Selvadurai has captured horrifyingly well the airlessness of a society in which only a few are truly able to breathe, and deeply' Mary Loudon, The Times In Shyam Selvadurai's masterful second novel, set in repressive and complex 1920s Ceylon, the Cinnamon Gardens is a residential enclave of wealthy Ceylonese. Among them is Annalukshmi, an independent and high-spirited young teacher intent on thwarting her parents' plans to arrange her marriage. In a parallel narrative, her uncle, Balendran Navaratnam, respectably married but secretly homosexual, has his life disrupted by the arrival in Ceylon ... continue
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De saffierweduwe by Dinah Jefferies NL
MalaysiaDescription:
Ceylon, 1935. Louisa Reeve en haar man Elliot lijken een stel te zijn dat alles heeft; zij is de dochter van een succesvolle Britse juwelier, hij een charmante zakenman vol levenslust. Maar hun allergrootste verlangen mist: een kind. Terwijl Louisa met miskramen worstelt, trekt Elliot zich terug en brengt hij steeds meer tijd door op een nabijgelegen kaneelplantage met uitzicht op de Indische Oceaan. Wanneer hij plots sterft moet Louisa het mysterie dat hij achterlaat alleen oplossen. Bij het bezoeken van de plantage voelt zij zich onverwacht aangetrokken tot eigenaar Leo, een ruige man met ee... continue
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El Fantasma de Anil by Michael Ondaatje ES
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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