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Upon A Sleepless Isle

Release date: 27 March 2023
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Dense green forests in Yala, white-sand coasts in Trincomalee, azure waters off the south coast, ... Read More

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Dense green forests in Yala, white-sand coasts in Trincomalee, azure waters off the south coast, Anuradhapura’s ancient temples, and cricket. Civil war, political assassinations, internally displaced communities, industrial-scale corruption. All are Sri Lanka. As are smug bureaucrats, nosy neighbours, and stray dogs with serious axes to grind. Through the eyes of Andrew Fidel Fernando, cricket writer par excellence, both a local and a tourist in his home country, Sri Lanka comes alive as he hurtles down hills in Kandy, breathes in the history at the rock fortress of Sigiriya, grapples with the aftermath of war in Jaffna, and has himself evicted from restaurants near Galle. Weaving through all manner of villages, paddy fields, mountains, jungles and marshlands, and pausing for the pests at grimy guesthouses and the vacationers of luxury hotels, Fernando has the time for every genre of person and wildlife in this chaotic, exquisite, frustrating, bewitching, tumultuous and intoxicating land. Hilariously witty yet wistfully sombre, Upon a Sleepless Isle is the story of a country and a people caught between long historical traditions and global capitalism, resulting in this ingenious paradise

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Title: Upon A Sleepless Isle
Author: Andrew Fidel Fernando
Publisher: Picador India
ISBN: 9789395624459
SKU: BK0471623
EAN: 9789395624459
Number Of Pages: 280 pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Release date: 27 March 2023

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