Acknowledgements -- Introduction: reading for my life -- The Chariot and the Moon -- No state, no dog -- Love in the tsunami -- Healing the forest -- Epilogue. EPILOGUE. The moon at Seenukgala / Ramya Chamalie Jirasinghe. The Mahagedara / Martin Wickramasinghe -- Our valavu / Vimala Ganeshananthan -- The jam fruit tree / Carl Muller -- The walauwa / Wimal Dissanayake -- The Hamilton case / Michelle de Kretser -- Colonial cameo / Regi Siriwardena -- Stones of Akuratiye walauva / Lakdasa Wikkramasinha -- Let's chat in the moonlight / N.K. Ragunathan -- The perfection of giving / Chitra Fernando -- A house divided / Nayomi Munaweera -- Among the hills / N.S.M. Ramaiah -- Guava green and mango ripe: field trip memories / Ameena Hussein -- April, 1971 / Ashley Halpe -- Court inquiry of a revolutionary / Parakrama Kodituwakku -- The hour when the moon weeps / Liyanage Amarakeerthi -- The rag / Nihal de Silva -- NO STATE, NO DOG. Inheritance / Jean Arasanayagam -- No state, no dog / C.V. Velupillai -- The whirlwind / Ayathurai Santhan -- The cat's table / Michael Ondaatje -- Migrant poet / Yasmine Gooneratne -- Hole-in-the-heart / V.V. Ganeshananthan -- A night in Frankfurt / V.I.S. Jayapalan -- The American girl / A. Muttulingam -- That innocent smile / Sunil Govinnage -- A house in the country / Romesh Gunesekera -- The homecoming / Vijita Fernando -- The house in Jaffna / Isankya Kodithuwakku -- Cousin / Cheran -- LOVE IN THE TSUNAMI. Letter from Welimada / U. Karunatilake -- Pradeep Mathew / Shehan Karunatilaka -- Rambuttangs / Anne Ranasinghe -- Love in the tsunami / Ashok Ferrey -- The fisherman mourned by his wife / Patrick Fernando -- Through a mist / Ajit Tilakasena -- The mission / S.D.V. Perera -- It could happen anywhere, anytime / Thamaraichelvi -- The water buffalo / Siri Gunasinghe -- Rahula is born / Ariyawansa Ranaweera -- HEALING THE FOREST. At what dark point / Anne Ranasinghe -- Murder / M.A. Nuhman -- Yet another incident in July 1983 / Basil Fernando -- Big match, 1983 / Yasmine Gooneratne -- In the month of July / Jean Arasanayagam -- The stealing of a jeweled lamp / Buddhadasa Galappatty -- Whose child is this? / Buddhadasa Galappatty -- Lines for Richard / Alfreda de Silva -- Elegy for Neelan Tiruchelvam / Vinothini -- Death at noon / Vivimarie Vanderpoorten -- A soldier's wife weeps / Kamala Wijeratne -- Oppressed by nights of war / Sivaramani -- Our folks are not ungrateful / Puthuvai Ratnathurai -- The worship-scar / S. Vilvaratnam -- Nowadays / Shanmugam Sivalingam -- Explosion / Vivimarie Vanderpoorten -- A return / Avvai -- A poet's fearless death / Puthuvai Ratnathurai -- Healing the forest / Cheran -- EPILOGUE. The moon at Seenukgala / Ramya Chamalie Jirasinghe.
Summary:
Shyam Selvadurai pieces together the best of Sri Lankan poetry and fiction in this anthology. From the Sinhala and Tamil writers of the 1950s to diasporic writers of today, from stories of love and longing to those of brutality and death, this masterfully constructed collection will give you a rich sense of Sri Lanka's history, its people and the stories they have to tell.
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