The 15 best books on Sri Lanka

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We conclude our series on the tiny tropical island by reading the best books on Sri Lanka and the insights offered on your pages

Before I visit a country, I would be happy to read one or two books about the travel destination to get a feeling for the place and culture. For Sri Lanka I chose Brixton Beach by Roma Tearne. Tearne, a writer born in Sri Lanka, who lives in Great Britain, offered the perfect introduction for our trip.

As with Tearne's novel, a large part of modern Srilankic literature is interwoven with the 25-year civil war of the country, which probably cost between 70,000 and 80,000 people. The topic of war runs through many of the books listed. However, we tried to include a number of books that reflect the many faces of the country, including colonial memories, journalistic travel reports, house-spun literary fiction and of course the "serious cricket novel".

We present our view of the best books about Sri Lanka, which are not listed in any specific order below.

The best books about Sri Lanka

1. running in the family von Michael Ondaatjein in the late 1970s, Ondaatje returned to his home stature Sri Lanka. He records his trip and traces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Cylonese family. An inspired travel story and family memory of an extraordinary author.
2. The village in the jungle of Leonard Woolf This classic novel about the colonial Ceylon was first published in 1913 and was written by a prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group, the husband of Virginia Woolf. It reads as if "Thomas Hardy had been born between the heat, the fragrance, the sensuality and the stinging secret of the tropics".
3. Mosquitovon Roma Tearnearne's first novel is about the author Theo Samarajeeva, who returns to Sri Lanka after the death of his wife. He hopes to escape his loss and find himself in a friendship with an artistic young girl, whose family is involved in the growing unrest.
4. Chinaman by Shehan Karunatilaka The former cricket player WG Karunasena will spend his last months to drink, annoy his wife, ignore his son and track down the mysterious Pradeep Mathew, an invented sports hero. In his search, he will be a coach with six fingers, a secret bunker under a cricket stadium, a tamil tiger warlord and frightening truths about Sri Lanka, cricket and uncovering himself.
5. WAVE: A Memoir of Life After The Tsunamivon Sonali Deraniyagaladaniyagala Memoirs about the loss of her husband and sons by the tsunami on Christmas Day 2004 is one of the best books that have ever been written about grief. Deraniyagala and her husband, her parents and two boys were on a family vacation in the Yala National Park when the tsunami took place.
6. Cinnamon Gardens of Shyam Selvaduraidiese History plays in the Ceylon of the 1920s in the last days of colonial rule and leads us behind the life of the elite, which lives in a wealthy suburb of Colombo, and reveals a world of fragmented families, contradicting passions and through class hatred.
7. Elephant Complex: Travels in Sri Lankavon John Gimletteob when hacking a path through the jungle, when interrogating surviving members of the Tamil Tigers or when observing the stranger social customs of the city life of Colombo, Gimlette brings a treasure chest of research and a gift for Wry on the side of humor.
8. Monkfish Moonsvon Rome -Gunesekeradie nine urgent stories by Monkfish Moon skillfully reveal a life that is characterized by the tropical environment of Sri Lanka and is disoriented by the residual violence of the country. Gunesekera describes a paradise in which a sudden moment of silence scares in a city and in which a civil war destroys a thousands of kilometers away.
9. The Tea Planter’s Wifevon Dinah Jefferiie The 19-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper is full of optimism from a steamer in Ceylon, eager to join her new husband. But the man who greets her on the tea plantation is not the same in which she fell in love with. The Tea Planter’s Wife is an urgent, tender portrait of a woman who is forced to choose between her duty as a wife and her instinct as a mother.
10. Island of a Thousand Mirrorsvon Nayomi Munaweerabe Violence Tore the Wandpich Sri Lanka and his untouched beaches red, there were two families, two young women who are ripe for love and have hopes for the future, and a random encounter that leads to their terrible heir has to be expected over years.
11. Brixton Beachvon Roma Tearnedie History focuses on Alice, a little girl in a country on the edge of a civil war. Alice's life will change forever. Soon she will leave to England, leave her beloved grandfather behind and be accompanied by her mother Sita, a woman who was broken by a number of terrible events.
12. Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatjeanil Tissera, a forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka and trained in the west, is sent by an international human rights group to identify the victims of murder campaigns. When Anil discovers that the bones found in an old tomb are that of a much younger victim, her search for a terrible truth begins.
13. on the Sal Mal Mal Lane from Ru Freemanam Day on which the Herath family moves in, the Sal Mal Mal Lane is still a quiet street. While the neighbors get used to the newcomers, the children fill their days with cricket, romantic enthusiasts and small rivalries. But the shocks of the civil war increase and the conflict threatens to devour them all.
14. The way from the Elephant Passby Nihal de Silva The routine order of an army officer to track down an informant near Jaffna becomes a nightmare when the Tamil Tigers start a massive attack on the camp on the Elephant Pass. The two opponents are forced to flee together by the Wanni and the abandoned Wilpattu National Park together by rebel.
fifteen. This Divided Island: Life, Death, and the Sri Lankan Warby Samanth Subramanianin Forensic Report on the Civil War in Sri Lanka. Through travel and conversations, Subramanian examines how people will reconcile how the mighty cruel and how the victory of the task can be granted the memory and buried history.

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