
The Sweet And Simple Kind
A poetic account of a nation's troubled awakening
Yasmine Gooneratne(Author)
Little, Brown (Publisher)
Published on 5. February 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
640 pages
978-1-4087-0163-8 (ISBN)
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Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Little, Brown Book Group
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
818 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4087-0163-8 (9781408701638)
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02/2010
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€32.39
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Person
Yasmine Gooneratne was born in Sri Lanka, and finished her studies in the UK. She won acclaim as a critic and has published several works of literary criticism and one previous novel. The Sweet and Simple Kind is her first novel to be available in the UK.