Cinnamon Gardens

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Anchor, 1999 - Fiction - 389 pages
Set In The 1920S Ceylon, Cinnamon Gardens Is A Residential Enclave Of Wealthy Ceylonese Who Live In An Uneasy Relationship With Their British Overlords, And With Different Sectors Of Their Own Community - The Tamil, The Christian, The Sinhalese. Among Them Is Annalukshmi Who, Going Against Her Parents, Bonds With A Sinhalese Clerk. Her Married Uncle, A Closet Homosexual, Renews His Relationship With A Lover Of Long Ago, Richard, Risking Disgrace And Heightening Tensions. Spine Slighly Wornout, Text Clean, Condition Good.

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Section 1
35
Section 2
44
Section 3
53
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About the author (1999)

Shyam Selvadurai is a novelist and writer for television. He was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 1965. Selvadurai earned a B.F.A. in creative writing from York University. Selvadurai has written for the Canadian television shows Many Voices and Inside Voices and contributed to several journals and anthologies. Selvadurai's first novel, Funny Boy, was nominated for the Giller Prize and received the W.H. Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award. It also earned the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Men's Fiction.

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