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A Passage North is a 2021 novel written by Anuk Arudpragasam.The novel is set in Sri Lanka following the end of the Civil War. [1] It was first published on 13 July 2021 by Hogarth Press in the United States [2] and by Hamish Hamilton in India. [3]
Arudpragasam was born in 1988 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, to Tamil parents. [3] [4] He grew up in a wealthy family in Colombo. [5] [6] His Tamil family originally came from the northeast of the country. [4] However, he himself never came into direct contact with the civil war that raged in the northeast from 1983 to 2009. [7]
Ganeshananthan is the author of Love Marriage, a novel set in Sri Lanka and North America, which was published by Random House in April 2008. Love Marriage was named one of The Washington Post Book World's Best of 2008 and appeared on the longlist for the Orange Prize. It was also selected as a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick. [2]
Boyagoda's second novel, Beggar's Feast, has been published around the world to critical acclaim, by Penguin Canada in 2011, Perera-Hussain (Sri Lanka) and Penguin US in 2012, Harper-Collins India in 2013, and Penguin UK in 2014.
In 2014, a Sinhala film titled Samige Kathawa was released and the plot of the film was based on Sam's Story. [6] He published a historical novel, The Last Kingdom of Sinhalay, based on the Kingdom of Kandy (known as the Kandyan era) which was also the last kingdom of Sri Lanka before the full-scale invasion by the British. [7]
The novel is set in Sri Lanka in the 1980s, and written in the second person.The central character, Maali Almeida, is a dead photographer who sets out to solve the mystery of his own death and is given one week ("seven moons") during which he can travel between the afterlife and the real world. [12]
Wijenaike wrote primarily in English, including fiction, short stories and anthologies. Her first collection of short stories, The Third Woman, was published in 1963.. Since then she has published four collections of short stories and six novels, with more than 100 stories published in newspapers, journals and anthologies in Sri Lanka and abroad, and has had her works broadcast in Sri Lanka ...
The Independent ' s reviewer, Salil Tripathi, considered the book to be a contender for the "Great Sri Lankan Novel", [15] as did Shashi Tharoor, who wrote: "Shehan Karunatilaka's extraordinary first novel is manifestly a work of genius—one that manages to be about Sri Lanka without being overtly about it, and seems to be about cricket but ...