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The Good Little Ceylonese Girl Paperback – 1 December 2012
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Ashok Ferrey
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The Good Little Ceylonese Girl is Ashok Ferrey's second collection of darkly humorous tales about Sri Lankans at home and abroad. Our Sri Lankan narrator visits his friend Joe in Italy where Joe attends a course in higher (or, shall we say, lower) studies in women. But Italians much like today's residents of Colombo live at home till marriage, death and sometimes even beyond. A hen and chicken affair of fake fiances and phony engagements ensues. Long years and many miles away, Colombo's Father Cruz attempts to rescue a church from parishioners who like to put their donations where others can see them with plaques to announce their charity. On the coast, a retired Admiral escapes the tsunami on an antique Dutch cabinet. A broken mother with neither Dutch cabinet nor navy helicopter to rescue her feels her son slip away and watches him go giving her looks of mild reproach. Two childhood sweethearts, in time-honoured Sri Lankan tradition, are married off to strangers. Nineteen years of clandestine meetings culminate in another chance of marriage. Perhaps time does separate. Ashok Ferrey writes about Sri Lanka and its people, wherever they roam. He writes of the Sri Lankan diaspora, who seem not to notice that their country has changed in their absence. He writes of the West's effect on Sri Lankans, of its turning them into caricatures, unmistakably genuine but not at all the real thing. As you laugh, you are left with nostalgia for a bygone Sri Lanka and Sri Lankans who might have been.
- Print length208 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherRHI
- Publication date1 December 2012
- ISBN-108184003072
- ISBN-13978-8184003079
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Ashok Ferrey has been many things: failed builder, indifferent mathematician, barman, personal trainer to the rich and infamous. He lives in Colombo with his wife, two kids and his cholesterol.
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- Publisher : RHI (1 December 2012)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 208 pages
- ISBN-10 : 8184003072
- ISBN-13 : 978-8184003079
- Item Weight : 99.8 g
- Country of Origin : India
- Best Sellers Rank: #725,322 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #23,826 in Short Stories (Books)
- #60,601 in Contemporary Fiction (Books)
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