Not Quite Paradise An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka

Name: Not Quite Paradise An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka
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ISBN: 9780807000618

ISBN-10: 0807000612

ISBN-13: 9780807000618

Edition: 2009

Authors: Adele Barker

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An in-depth look at a beautiful island paradise devastated by a thirty-year war and the tsunami Weaving together reporting, travelogue, and personal narrative, debut author Adele Barker brings American readers with her to experience Sri Lanka, "the resplendent island" that seems to hang like a teardrop from the tip of India. Barker's account of the year and a half she spent living and teaching there moves deftly from the daily, personal details of Sri Lankan life and culture to reports on the war between the government and the Tamil Tigers, and the 2004 tsunami in which forty-eight thousand Sri Lankans died in the space of twenty minutes. Life on the island is complex for a Westerner, and…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 1/1/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 312
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English







Going and Coming I



Student Life



Housekeeping



Insurrections in the Hills



Hot Curry



Rain



The War Next Door



Colombo



Colonialist Torpor



Life in a Different Key



Gihin Ennam






When the Sea Came to the Land



Home



Up and Down the Mountain



The Story of a Wave



Early Warning System



Arugam Bay



Batti



The Road to Jaffna



In Jaffna



Reading the Classics



Leaving Jaffna



Going and Coming II


Epilogue