Author: Yasmine Gooneratne
Publisher: Indialog Publications
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 206
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8187981210
Description
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.
PRAISE FOR YASMINE GOONERATNE:
This fascinating memoir by a member of one of Sri Lanka's ruling families recreates a time when the elite Bandaranaike clan was more Edwardian than the Edwardians themselves. Intelligent, sympathetic, authentic.
- Steven R Weisman, New York Times Book Review for Relative Merits
Migration from Asia to Australia is handled in this remarkable novel with humor and sympathetic understanding of both cultures, backed up by accurate and minute historical research.
- The Book Review for A Change of Skies
Delicious comedy of manners, a joy to read.
- The Sunday Telegraph for A Change of Skies
An absolute delight. A multi-tiered novel written in an effortless prose style. Bitingly astute and enormously funny.
The Times of India for The Pleasures of Conquest
Research, absorbed effortlessly, to emerge as purposeful literary irony.
- The Financial Express for The Pleasures of Conquest
A Story full of romance and violence, trust and deceit. By looking at the historical record from both sides, the authors give readers a wonderfully human view of people caught in an earnest and deadly political game.
- Professor Richard Bailey, University of Michigan for This Inscrutable Englishman
Contents
INTRODUCTION:
The Writing Life
A Pot Of "Rice"
Stress
For Love Or Money
Delicious Solitude
How Barry Changed His Image
A Postcolonial Love story
His Neighbor's Wife
Astronauts
Waste
In Herbert's Study
Falling From Grace
The Facts of Life
Made In England
Vesak Lanterns
The Chauffeur
Tsunami's Confession
Masterpiece