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  • A Little Dust on the Eyes

    by Minoli Salgado ...
    It is the late 1980s in southern Sri Lanka and Bradley Sirisena's father is abducted and tortured during the violent struggle for power between the state and local insurgents. Savi, a Sri Lankan research student long settled in the UK, has lost her way in both her thesis and her life, when she receives a wedding invitation from the uncle she would rather ignore. Meanwhile in a coastal fort in Sri ... Read more

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  • A Little Dust on the Eyes

    by Minoli Salgado ...
    It is the late 1980s in southern Sri Lanka. Bradley Sirisena's father is tortured and abducted in the violent struggle for power between the state and local insurgents. Some fifteen years later, his disappearance remains unresolved.Savi, a Sri Lankan research student long settled in the UK, has lost her way in both her thesis and her life, when she receives a wedding invitation from the uncle she ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Twelve Cries from Home

    In Search of Sri Lanka's Disappeared

    by Minoli Salgado ...
    Twelve Cries from Home speaks out against Sri Lanka’s official silencing of war crimes, reclaiming the stories of survivors who insist on being heard.Since August 2020, the intimidation of witnesses and journalists has surged in Sri Lanka. Twelve Cries from Home navigates the memories and stories of twelve war survivors, mostly women and relatives of the disappeared, who wished to have their ... Read more

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  • Witness Literature

    Culture, Memory and Contested Truths

    by Professor Minoli Salgado ...
    This is the first critical monograph to explore and delineate the emergent field of witness literature across fiction, nonfiction, memoir, journalism and survivor testimony from the Global South.Witness Literature examines writing from three sites of exceptional violence and fluid justice: the Cambodian Genocide, the Sri Lankan civil war and the borderscapes of honour-based violence in Jordan, ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Writing Sri Lanka

    Literature, Resistance & the Politics of Place

    by Minoli Salgado ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    Focusing on ways in which cultural nationalism has influenced both the production and critical reception of texts, Salgado presents a detailed analysis of eight leading Sri Lankan writers - Michael Ondaatje, Romesh Gunasekera, Shyam Selvadurai, A. Sivanandan, Jean Arasanayagam, Carl Muller, James Goonewardene and Punyakante Wijenaike – to rigorously challenge the theoretical, cultural and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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    “Mystery, adventure, and romance are spiced with Bollywood glamour in this heart-stopping novel” from the USA Today bestselling author(Kirkus Reviews, starred review).Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction of the Year NPR Great Reads RUSA Reading List Longlist Selection RT Book Reviews Reviewers Choice Award WinnerDr. Nikhil “Nic” Joshi had it all—marriage, career, purpose. Until, while working for Doctors ... Read more

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  • A Long Petal of the Sea

    A Novel

    by Isabel Allende ...
    Translated by Nick Caistor, Amanda Hopkinson ...
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  • The Color of Our Sky

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  • The Clay Girl

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    “A page-turner with an indelible heroine.” —Ann-Marie MacDonaldCanadian actor, comedian and social activist Mary Walsh explodes onto the literary scene with this unforgettable story of a young woman coming of age in late 1960s NewfoundlandRaised on tough love in St. John’s, Maureen is the second-youngest daughter of a bitter and angry mother and a beaten-down father who tells the best stories (but ... Read more

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