The True Paradise
Salgado Gamini
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Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Description: 181 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.
Publishers Description: Childhood in Ceylon is vividly portrayed in a sequence of mysterious stories and exotic vignettes which evoke the authors birthplace, the secretive pleasures of boyhood, and the poignance of Buddhism which stresses so strongly the ephemerality of life. The lyricism of the writing and the rich cast of characters make the book a delight. It portrays an exceptional person growing up in one culture and gradually being possessed by another, by European attitudes, but never losing the vibrant heart of his first years. "The True Paradise" has been compiled from his writings, after the authors untimely death in 1985, by his widow, Fenella Copplestone.
ISBN: 9781857540079
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