![]() ![]() Free spirit Mala falls in love with another student and marries without traditional arranged nuptials. Nishan and his twin sister, Mala-children of an ambitious Sinhala teacher and a laid-back doctor of uncertain bloodlines-leave their coastal village to attend university in Colombo. ![]() ![]() The Sri Lankan civil war’s traumatic effect on the island nation's people-and one family in particular-is the subject of this verdantly atmospheric first novel.Īfter a graphic post-coital prologue, Sri Lanka born California resident Munaweera begins her family saga in 1948, when the British leave their former colony Ceylon, where the Tamil majority is looked down on by the lighter-skinned Sinhala ruling class. ![]()
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