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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Hardcover)
by (shelved 324 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.90 — 62,766 ratings — published 2022
Island of a Thousand Mirrors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 4.03 — 5,243 ratings — published 2012
Anil's Ghost (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.59 — 19,143 ratings — published 2000
Brotherless Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 4.45 — 20,042 ratings — published 2023
A Passage North (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.70 — 9,121 ratings — published 2021
Running in the Family (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.83 — 10,085 ratings — published 1982
Funny Boy (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,186 ratings — published 1994
Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,746 ratings — published 2010
Reef (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,170 ratings — published 1994
The Story of a Brief Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,276 ratings — published 2016
Cinnamon Gardens (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,192 ratings — published 1998
This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,847 ratings — published 2013
The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 49 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 4.42 — 881 ratings — published 2014
What Lies Between Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,474 ratings — published 2016
The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 4.06 — 475 ratings — published 2011
On Sal Mal Lane (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.87 — 760 ratings — published 2013
The Cat's Table (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.62 — 27,578 ratings — published 2011
The English Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.86 — 140,764 ratings — published 1992
A Disobedient Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,179 ratings — published 2009
Elephant Complex: Travels in Sri Lanka (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.92 — 768 ratings — published 2015
The Village in the Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.86 — 568 ratings — published 1913
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 4.14 — 14,976 ratings — published 2022
You're Invited (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.50 — 25,585 ratings — published 2022
When Memory Dies (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 4.21 — 282 ratings — published
The Road From Elephant Pass (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.97 — 587 ratings — published 2003
Mosquito (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.98 — 723 ratings — published 2007
The Boat People (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 23 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.97 — 7,480 ratings — published 2018
The Saint of Bright Doors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.64 — 7,614 ratings — published 2023
Song of the Sun God (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,845 ratings — published 2017
The Tea Planter's Wife (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.81 — 22,604 ratings — published 2015
Swimming in the Monsoon Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,271 ratings — published 2005
Still Counting the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 4.32 — 479 ratings — published 2012
Love Marriage (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.51 — 1,159 ratings — published 2008
My Sweet Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.65 — 7,156 ratings — published 2021
The Hamilton Case (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.28 — 891 ratings — published 2003
Marriage of a Thousand Lies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,776 ratings — published 2017
Monkfish Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.66 — 416 ratings — published 1992
Brixton Beach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,346 ratings — published 2009
Return to Sri Lanka: Travels in a Paradoxical Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 4.06 — 290 ratings — published
The Hungry Ghosts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,090 ratings — published 2012
The Jam Fruit Tree (The Burgher Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.73 — 371 ratings — published 1993
A History of Sri Lanka (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.85 — 61 ratings — published 1981
The Rice Mother (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,166 ratings — published 2002
Island Witch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,700 ratings — published 2024
Noontide Toll: Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.73 — 430 ratings — published 2014
Suncatcher (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.55 — 371 ratings — published 2019
Sri Lanka in the Modern Age: A History of Contested Identities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.78 — 37 ratings — published 2005
Bone China (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as sri-lanka)
avg rating 3.73 — 483 ratings — published 2008
“For a long time the horror that these images elicited remained buried inside him. A morbid reality he was constantly feeding and yet he was unable to express. As though unable to fully believe or understand what they depicted. It was only when the channel 4 documentary came out in 2011, accusing the government of war crimes and genocide, when later that year the UN published its report, giving an estimate of how many civilians had died that he was finally able to speak about what had happened. To accept that the images he had become obsessed with were not some strange perverted creation of his subconscious life but they represented things that had really happened in the country he was from. Even now he felt ashamed thinking about his reluctance to acknowledge the magnitude of what had happened at the end of the war. As though he had been hesitating to believe the evidence on his computer screen because his own poor violated stateless people were the ones alleging it. As though he was unable to take the suffering of his own people seriously till it was validated by the panel of foreign authority experts, legitimised by a documentary, narrated by a clean shaven white man standing in front of a camera in suit and tie.”
― A Passage North
― A Passage North
“It was not to flaunt feelings of superiority that the elders of the Kaisaruwatte family clung to the traditions of their patrician lineage, but for self-preservation of themseleves and their way of life, now declining in the face of social change. It was their inability to adapt to change due to the rigidity of their adherence to tradition, that was also the cause of their decline.”
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