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Best Novels About Sri Lanka on March 2024 Shopping Deals at Bestonio.com

  • The Atlantis Riddle: A Dan Kotler Archaeological Thriller

    • ASIN: B01MQ4QITL
    • Manufacturer: Happy Pants Books

    DAN KOTLER IS BACK, AND THIS TIME HE’S TACKLING ONE OF THE OLDEST MYSTERIES IN HISTORYThe second Dan Kotler archaeological thriller!1914—Thomas Edison stands and watches his West Orange laboratory burn to the ground, taking his life’s work with it. And he smiles. In his pocket is a stone that is the key to untold mysteries, and with it he wil... [Read More]

  • Destination Earth: A New Philosophy of Travel by a World-Traveler

    • ASIN: 0997414804
    • ISBN: 0997414804
    • Manufacturer: Bamboo Leaf Press

    Updated 2nd Edition 2019 Gold Medal Winner: International Book Award in the Travel Category, 2017Gold Medal Winner: Independent Press Award in the Travel Category, 2017Silver Medal Winner: Reader's Favorite Award in the Travel Genre, 2017 "In his book, Destination Earth, Nicos Hadjicostis shares the ultimate 'budget travel tip': how to make your t... [Read More]

  • Running in the Family

    • ASIN: 0679746692
    • ISBN: 0679746692
    • Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the ear of India, " Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family. An inspired travel narrative and family memoir by an exceptional writer... [Read More]

  • Funny Boy: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0062392980
    • ISBN: 0062392980
    • Brand: Selvadurai Shyam
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

    An evocative coming-of-age novel about growing up gay in Sri Lanka during the Tamil-Sinhalese conflict—one of the country’s most turbulent and deadly periods.Arjie is “funny.”The second son of a privileged family in Sri Lanka, he prefers staging make-believe wedding pageants with his female cousins to battling balls with the other boys. Whe... [Read More]

  • Anil's Ghost: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0375724370
    • ISBN: 0375724370
    • Brand: Vintage Books USA
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize—winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing.Anil’s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in ce... [Read More]

  • Half Gods

    • ASIN: 0374167672
    • ISBN: 0374167672
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    A startlingly beautiful debut, Half Gods brings together the exiled, the disappeared, the seekers. Following the fractured origins and destines of two brothers named after demigods from the ancient epic the Mahabharata, we meet a family struggling with the reverberations of the past in their lives. These ten interlinked stories redraw the map of ou... [Read More]

  • The Elephant Gates: Vibrant Reflections of Life, Family, and Tradition in Sri Lanka

    • ASIN: B00MU46GWU
    • Manufacturer: River Grove Books

    The Elephant Gates is a recollection of the simple pleasures of childhood caught up in an inevitable tide of change. With vivid and touching detail, it recalls Weeratunge’s life, home, and family in her native village of Depanama on the island of Sri Lanka. Weeratunge’s memories reveal a yearning for past times when traditions like celebrating ... [Read More]

  • The Elephant Keeper's Daughter

    • ASIN: B0719DKZLT
    • Manufacturer: Amazon Crossing

    From the bestselling author of The Lioness of Morocco comes the beguiling novel of a young woman trapped between the expectations of her family and the desire to live free.Ceylon, 1803. In the royal city of Kandy, a daughter is born to the king’s elephant keeper—an esteemed position in the court reserved only for males. To ensure the line of su... [Read More]

  • 3001 (Space Odyssey Book 4)

    • ASIN: B00AHG9KYE
    • Manufacturer: RosettaBooks

    A thousand years after being cast into the frozen void of space by the supercomputer HAL, Frank Poole is brought back to life-and thrust into a world more technically advanced than the one he left behind. He discovers a world of human minds directly interfacing with computers; genetically-engineered dinosaur servants; and massive space elevators bu... [Read More]

  • The Story of a Brief Marriage: A Novel

    • ASIN: 1250072409
    • ISBN: 1250072409
    • Brand: Flatiron Books
    • Manufacturer: Flatiron Books

    Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize“Brave…Brilliant…This is a book that makes one kneel before the elegance of the human spirit and the yearning that is at the essence of every life.” ―The New York Times Book Review"One of the best books I have read in years." ―Colm ToibinTwo and a half decades into a devastating civil war, Sri Lanka... [Read More]

  • The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0143125028
    • ISBN: 0143125028
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    "F. Scott Fitzgerald meets Wes Anderson" (The Village Voice) in this inventive and witty debut about a young man’s quest to become a writer and the misadventures in life and love that take him around the globe—from the author of Why We Came to the City As early as he can remember, the narrator of this remarkable novel has wanted to become a wri... [Read More]

  • The Tea Planter's Wife: A Novel

    • ASIN: B01A4ATVXM
    • Manufacturer: Broadway Books

    #1 International bestselling novel set in 1920s Ceylon, about a young Englishwoman who marries a charming tea plantation owner and widower, only to discover he's keeping terrible secrets about his past, including what happened to his first wife, that lead to devastating consequencesIn this lush, atmospheric page-turner, nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn ... [Read More]

  • Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist

    • ASIN: B014E0EQKQ
    • Manufacturer: Lee Boudreaux Books

  • What Lies Between Us: A Novel

    • ASIN: B0122VFGJY
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

    In the idyllic hill country of Sri Lanka, a young girl grows up with her loving family; but even in the midst of this paradise, terror lurks in the shadows. When tragedy strikes, she and her mother must seek safety by immigrating to America. There the girl reinvents herself as an American teenager to survive, with the help of her cousin; but even a... [Read More]

  • La isla de las mariposas: Una carta misteriosa, un romance del pasado, una casa llena de secretos. (Grandes Novelas) (Spanish Edition)

    • ASIN: B00DECQX2K
    • Manufacturer: Maeva

    Una fascinante novela de secretos de familia ambientada en un lugar exótico, que se inscribe dentro del género «landscape», con más de 180.000 ejemplares vendidos en Alemania.¿Qué secreto esconden una enigmática carta, una antigua mansión y una plantación de té heredada?¿Cuánto sabemos realmente de nuestra propia familia?Una carta mist... [Read More]

  • The Mountain Shadow

    • ASIN: 0802124453
    • ISBN: 0802124453
    • Manufacturer: Grove

    Brand new book with plastic cover.

  • CAT DETECTIVES IN THE KOREAN PENINSULA: DIARY OF A SNOOPY CAT (THE INCA CAT DETECTIVE SERIES Book 8)

    • ASIN: B07L57G9KV

    Can one cat detective bring peace and harmony to a family divided within the Korean peninsula?Inca the Siberian Kitty and her globetrotting furry family are off to South Korea with their human Mom. Mom has just created a fabulous new cheese and she has been invited by the famous French cookery school, Cordon Bleu Cookery to not only present her ne... [Read More]

  • Sea of Lies: The MH370 Conspiracy Thriller (Countless Lies Book 1)

    • ASIN: B01F9PRR9M
    • Manufacturer: Bradley Alan West

    Malaysia Airlines MH370 Hijacked!A burned out codebreaker. Incriminating stolen NSA files. A maniacal ex-Ranger. A sultry spy master. The violent intersection of spies and politics thrusts an aging CIA officer into a desperate race across Burma, Singapore, Sri Lanka and the Australian Outback. Crisp dialog drives non-stop realistic action across sw... [Read More]

  • Hernando Villa: A Sri Lankan Love Story

    • ASIN: B00FF8K1G0

    "Hernando Villa" is mainly the love story of a Sinhala boy and a Tamil girl, set in the background of the Sinhala-Tamil ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka in the early years of the 21st century. Thulasi Muttulingam in her review in “Ceylon Today” wrote: “Though the book claims to be a love story, it is essentially much more than that....the book i... [Read More]

  • DuckBaby Novel Curtains Fantasy Moonlight Covers The Jungles of Sri Lanka Hazy Rainforest Scenery View Image Light Blocking Drapes with Liner W63 xL63 Green and Blue

    • ASIN: B07TZW65WC
    • Brand: DuckBaby
    • Size: W63"xL63"
    • Manufacturer: DuckBaby

    Material: polyester high quality fabric curtains, warm and interesting.Curtains are an effective and effective way to block unwanted external lights at any time.Blackout curtains keep you warm and warm, helping you reduce home heating and cooling costs.Blackout curtains provide complete privacy and reduce unnecessary external noise. There are many ... [Read More]

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