Shyam Selvadurai pieces together the best of Sri Lankan poetry and fiction in this anthology. From the Sinhala and Tamil writers of the 1950s to diasporic writers of today, from stories of love and longing to those of brutality and death, this masterfully constructed anthology will give you a rich sense of Sri Lankas history, its people and the stories they have to tell.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Shyam Selvadurai
Shyam Selvadurai was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and went to Canada at the age of nineteen. His first novel, Funny Boy, published in 1994, became a bestseller and won the W.H. Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award. In the U.S., it won the Lambada Literary Award and was named a Notable Book by the American Library Association. His second novel, Cinnamon Gardens, was shortlisted for the Trillium Award and published internationally. Both books have been published by Penguin India. He is the editor of Story-wallah! A Celebration of South Asian Fiction. Shyam Selvadurai lives in Toronto.
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