"It's 1936, the world is sliding into war, and Henry Fyre Gould has left behind the salons of New York City for the British colony of Ceylon, the tear-shaped island off the coast of India.

... Cejlon ( pod taką nazwą kiedyś była znana Sri Lanka ) u wy- brzeży Indii zamieszkiwana jest przez dwie najważniejsze grupy etniczne Syngalezów i Tamilów . Syngalezi nazywają swój kraj Sri Lanką , podczas gdy Tamilowie zwą go Tamilskim ...

... Cejlon . Przygotowanie ryżu w Zakładzie Sióstr . Kartagina . Wodociąg rzymski w Ued - Melian . Cejlon . Mieszkanie missyonarzy w Kurunegala Kartagina . Zwaliska świątyni pogańskiej w Zaghuan Zwaliska amfiteatru 85 88 89 92 93 . 96 ⚫ 99 ...

Robert Knox was travelling with his father in 1659 on the latter's journey homeward from his post with the British East India Company at Fort St. George when a storm obliged their ship to put into Cottier Bay, Ceylon.

Like the sweet heat of a palate-pleasing curry or the brilliant radiance of bougainvillea, the short stories in Mary Anne Mohanraj's Bodies in Motion will delight the senses and sensibilities.

"Tumultuous, vibrant, tragic and over too soon." --Newsday Handwriting is Michael Ondaatje's first new book of poetry since The Cinnamon Peeler.

Knox eventually escaped with one companion after nineteen years of captivity. This book is one of the earliest and most detailed European accounts of life on Ceylon.

Set in London where the Sri Lankan narrator lives, The Sandglass tells the story of two feuding families whose lives are interlinked by the changing fortunes of postcolonial Sri Lanka.