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from Chatterbox
This is an intriguing but uneven saga of an American professor's sojurn in Sri Lanka -- or rather, her two sojurns, one teaching as a Fulbright fellow to college students in the mountains near Kandy; another, two years later, as she returns to investigate what has happened to the 'pearl' of South...
from labfs39
Less than a year ago, the Sri Lankan government announced that the 25 year old civil war with the Tamil Tigers was over. The end came after a horrific standoff on a tiny strip of land with civilians caught in the middle. After following the news that week in May of 2009, I felt compelled to learn...
from cameling
If anyone wants a quick history lesson into Sri Lanka, this is a good book to read. I didn't know much about Sri Lanka before I started reading this memoir of an American woman who went over to Sri Lanka who received a Fulbright scholarship to teach English literature. She brought her son with he...
from whitreidtan
Adele Barker is an American who went to Sri Lanka on a Fulbright to teach university for a year immediately following the terror of Sept. 11. She traveled back there again after the devastating Boxing Day tsunami of 2004. This book, part memoir, part travelogue, part political history tries to ma...
from nobooksnolife
We usually take it for granted that living in a foreign country changes us-sometimes profoundly and sometimes superficially-and we usually develop strong feelings for the foreign country and for the total expatriate experience. The memories of that place can remain in frozen in time, even as the ...
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