A collection of seventeen stories. Tales that constantly take the reader by surprise. Tales of love and loss, ancient legend and contemporary experience, enchantments of childhood and disillusionments of maturity. Tales that are witty, tender, subtle, true, rich in texture and characterization, coupled with an interplay of emotional power and keen understanding.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Yasmine Gooneratne
Yasmine Gooneratne holds a Personal Chair in English Literature at Macquarie University, New South Wales. Born in Sri Lanka, educated at Bishop's College, Colombo, she graduated from the University of Ceylon in 1959, received a PhD in English Literature from Cambridge University in 1962, and in 1981 received the first (and up to date, only) higher doctoral degree of Doctor of Letters (DLitt) ever awarded by Macquarie University. From 1989 to 1993 she was Foundation Director of her University's Postcolonial Literatures & Languages Research Centre. In 1990 she was created an Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to literature and education. Yasmine Gooneratne married Dr Brendon Gooneratne, physician, environmentalist and historian, in 1962. They have two children, a son and a daughter, and live in Sydney. Her 16 published books include critical studies of Jane Austen, Alexander Pope, and the contemporary novelist and screen writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. She is also the author of volumes of literary essays and poems, short stories, a family memoir and two novels, one of which (A Change of Skies) was awarded the Marjorie Barnard Literary Award for Fiction in 1991. Both her novels have been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize.
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