Sri Lanka


The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Island of a Thousand Mirrors
Anil's Ghost
A Passage North
Brotherless Night
Running in the Family
Funny Boy
Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew
Reef
The Story of a Brief Marriage
Cinnamon Gardens
Wave
This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War
The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War
What Lies Between Us
Annihilation of Caste by B.R. AmbedkarThe Persistence of Caste by Anand TeltumbdeUntouchables Castes in India by ShyamlalHaunted by Fire by Mythily SivaramanRepublic of Caste by Anand Teltumbde
Caste Discrimination
95 books — 3 voters

PIRATE’S ALLEY by Thomas J LevequeThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniBeneath a Marble Sky by John ShorsThe Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
Historical Fiction - South Asia
85 books — 29 voters
Many Roads through Paradise by Shyam SelvaduraiWrite to Reconcile by Shyam SelvaduraiA Year of Last Things by Michael OndaatjeOut of Sri Lanka by Vidyan Ravinthiranblackbirds don’t mate with starlings by Janaka Malwatta
Poetry by Sri Lankan Authors
98 books — 1 voter

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Best South Asian Fiction
752 books — 1,929 voters

For the jungle dissolves and recreates over and over and over again, as the Hindu philosophers perceived millenniums ago and built their religion on it. All that we know of things that died more anciently than a month ago, is written in stone or brick or earthwork, or, perhaps more durable even than these, in legend.
John Still, The Jungle Tide

In Sri Lanka curiosity was not a trait encouraged among children, particularly in girls, because those in power- often males, but anyone older, or of higher caste, education or influence- were always right and their reasons needn't be explained or understood to the subordinate. ...more
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