Literatur aus Sri Lanka und über Sri Lanka

David Blacker
A Cause Untrue
(Roman)
Perera Hussein Publishing House, Sri Lanka

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A terrorist attack of world-shaking proportions blasts open this tale of a Sri Lankan terror group with a deadly secret it desperately wants to hide. Hunted by special forces, the terrorists take Sri Lanka's war to the streets of Europe and North America. Highly-trained killers race against the clock and each other as violent strategies unfold at heart-stopping speed. Car bombs, high-level assassinations, and an international hijack stun the world, while an Indian naval task force brings Sri Lanka and South Asia to the brink of total war. At the centre of it all, the spymasters on both sides pull their strings in a fast-paced, tightly-woven novel which was short listed for the Graetien Prize in 2005 and is guaranteed to keep you racing long into the night.

 

Ashok Ferrey
Colpetty People
(Kurzgeschichten)
Perera Hussein Publishing House, Sri Lanka

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Short listed for the Graetien Prize in 2003. Love, vengeance, nostalgia, compassion, irony: Ashok Ferrey leaves no emotion untouched in his debut collection of stories. This bestseller oozes with satire and humour in its depiction of life lived by the Sri Lankan upper classes in Colombo. Extremely witty and entertaining, Ferrey amuses his readers with delectable vignettes of a social order that thrives on gossip, appearances and dwindling fortunes.

 

Nihal de Silva
Paduma meets the Sunbird
(Jugendbuch)
Perera Hussein Publishing House, Sri Lanka

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Paduma meets the Sunbird, stories from Paduma's World is a celebration of childhood in rural Sri Lanka. The fun-loving and mischevious Paduma gets himself into all sorts of pranks and escapes disaster by the skin of his teeth! A 'must read' for children and adolescents.

 

Channa Wickremesekera
Distant Warriors
(Roman)
Perera Hussein Publishing House, Sri Lanka

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The long standing tension between the Sri Lankan Sinhala and Tamil communities in Australia comes to a head at a fundraiser organised in Melbourne. In his second novel about the Sri Lankan diaspora, Wickremesekera sensitively and humourously explores the prejudices and hypocrisies that follow them into their new home.

 

Manuka Wijesinghe
Monsoons and Potholes
(biografische Erzählung)
Perera Hussein Publishing House, Sri Lanka

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A mad, bad, humorous, irreverent and very personal, auto biographical account of growing up in Sri Lanka through the years of deprivation and plenty. The trials and tribulations, real and imagined of the heroine Manuka, in tandem with her view of the country's progress on the slippery road to democracy. Playwright Manuka Wijesinghe's first attempt at a novel is a saga that takes you through the first twenty years of her life, struggling with growing pains analogous to Sri Lanka's turbulent politics. A reality that may or may not have been shared by all, but one that many will relate to.