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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.
It is 1980 and the monsoon season in Sri Lanka. Fourteen-year-old Amrith faces an uneventful summer in the cheerful, well-to-do household in which he is being raised by his vibrant Aunty Bundle and kindly Uncle Lucky. He tries not to think of his life “before,†when his loving mother was still alive. Amrith’s holiday plans seem unpromising until, like an unexpected shower, his cousin arrives from Canada. Amrith’s ordered life becomes storm-tossed as he ...