| Ceylon Rediscovered Contributor(s): Samaranayake, J. F. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1466268360 ISBN-13: 9781466268364 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.27" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.39 lbs) 126 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Opening with a discussion of the 1959 assassination of Prime Minister S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike by a Buddhist monk, (which led to his wife Sirimavo becoming the world's first female prime minister in 1960), Ceylonese journalist J. F. Samaranayake recounts tongue-in-cheek exchanges with a composite of Sinhalese and Tamil characters in the 1960s. A 95-pound fifteen-year-old runaway, he had bid the shores of Ceylon farewell in 1933 wearing a college uniform and carrying only a textbook in hand to return some three decades later weighing 165 pounds, temples graying, and a wife and five children in tow. He soon discovers that the real Ceylon is in the countryside whilst the city has no dearth of class and racial distinctions coupled with a conflict between national aspirations and tastes for Western ways. Worse, he concludes that the outward trappings of Ceylon as a "democracy" with a "Free Press" may just have been that-a farce. |
