A novel about a Sri Lankan boy who likes to wear a sari, play with girls, and avoid sports, and the difficulties he faces because of his differences. Winner of the Smithbooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award for 1994.
Writers of South Asian descent have been garnering more and more success, acclaim, and attention. Story-Wallah gathers the finest South Asian voices in fiction for the first time in a single volume. As Shyam Selvadurai writes in his introduction, "The stories jostle up against each other . . . The effect is a marvelous cacophony that reminds me of ...
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 ...
Nominated for the Governor General's Literary Awards 2005, (Children's Literature, Text) The setting is Sri Lanka, 1980, and it is the season of monsoons. Fourteen-year-old Amrith is caught up in the life of the cheerful, well-to-do household in which he is being raised by his vibrant Auntie Bundle and kindly Uncle Lucky. He tries not to think of ...
In the world of his large family, affluent Tamils living in the capital of Sri Lanka, Arjie is an oddity - a "funny boy" - who likes dressing as a girl. Through his eyes, the reader watches him come to terms with his homosexuality and with the violent racism of the society in which he lives.
Construido sobre una antigua plantacion de canelos, Jardines de Canela es un barrio residencial de Colombo, capital de Sri Lanka, rebautizado como Ceilan por sus amos coloniales.Corre el ano 1927 cuando la independencia y el sufragio universal remueven las apacibles aguas del milenario pais, donde las mujeres se limitan al silencioso cumplimiento ...
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