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'"Loyalty (and the damnable lack of it in his wife) was the thought uppermost in the mind of Sir Andrew Millbanke as he looked down at Lady Alexandra's dead body, spread-eagled on the paved pathway of the Residency."
'And so begins an engrossing and dramatic family drama, set against the backdrop of Ceylon's bumpy evolution into Sri Lanka, as the Wijesinha clan struggle to balance their staunch political ambition against the ignominy of an embarrassing family scandal. And when two young family members, cousins Tsunami and Latha, meet and become firm friends no one can guess that their triumphant friendship will be played out over the passing years against both the best and the worst the newly independent Sri Lanka can offer as these two smart and Westernised young women pursue their own personal freedoms. (Provided by Little, Brown, 2009 publication.)
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Englishness in South-East Asian Fiction : the Cases of Paul Theroux and Yasmine Gooneratne
L'anglicite dans la fiction de l'Asie du sud-est : les exemples de Paul Theroux et de Yasmine Gooneratne
2009
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criticism
— Appears in: Revue LISA , vol. 7 no. 3 2009; -
Untitled
2009
single work
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— Appears in: Transnational Literature , May vol. 1 no. 2 2009;
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Resident Aliens: Diasporic Women's Writing
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Contemporary Women's Writing , June vol. 3 no. 1 2009; (p. 28-46) In her introduction, Gunew writes: 'While diaspora often evokes a homeland, how do women writers assert, negotiate, and contest multiple political ideas of home across time, history, and geography? In what ways do women writers accommodate serial diasporas, often in multiple languages? [...] To support my contention that diaspora criticism needs to be anchored in temporal and spatial specificities, I will focus on three diasporic women writers who are linked by being "South Asian" in complex ways' (29). -
Bride and Prejudice Revisited
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 312 2009; (p. 43)
— Review of The Sweet and Simple Kind 2006 single work novel
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Bride and Prejudice Revisited
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 312 2009; (p. 43)
— Review of The Sweet and Simple Kind 2006 single work novel -
Untitled
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , May vol. 1 no. 2 2009;
— Review of The Sweet and Simple Kind 2006 single work novel -
Resident Aliens: Diasporic Women's Writing
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Contemporary Women's Writing , June vol. 3 no. 1 2009; (p. 28-46) In her introduction, Gunew writes: 'While diaspora often evokes a homeland, how do women writers assert, negotiate, and contest multiple political ideas of home across time, history, and geography? In what ways do women writers accommodate serial diasporas, often in multiple languages? [...] To support my contention that diaspora criticism needs to be anchored in temporal and spatial specificities, I will focus on three diasporic women writers who are linked by being "South Asian" in complex ways' (29). -
Englishness in South-East Asian Fiction : the Cases of Paul Theroux and Yasmine Gooneratne
L'anglicite dans la fiction de l'Asie du sud-est : les exemples de Paul Theroux et de Yasmine Gooneratne
2009
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Revue LISA , vol. 7 no. 3 2009;
Awards
- 2008 shortlisted International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
- 2007 shortlisted Commonwealth Writers Prize — Europe and South Asia — Best Book
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cSri Lanka,cSouth Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
- 1950s
- 1960s
