The Ceaseless Chatter of Demons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ceaseless Chatter of Demons write by Ashok Ferrey. This book was released on 2016-12-05. The Ceaseless Chatter of Demons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. ‘I was born ugly. That’s what my mother always said.’ So begins the story of young Sonny Mahadewala who lives a dual life: between his adoptive England where he lives in eccentric union with a privileged American, and the mixed bliss of the Mahadewala Walauwa, the big house on the mountain belonging to his father’s family in Kandy— the ancient capital of Sri Lanka—where he has both cachet and awful memories. For Sonny’s mother, a wonderfully maleficent anti-heroine, is convinced that demons possess this awfully ugly son of hers. Demons and the devil himself are the playing field of this book, whether seated in the draughty chapels of Oxford or roaming the Kandyan countryside and, through their clever interplay, they speak of larger horrors with able grace. Who is utterly good or utterly evil—and who, indeed, is the devil?
Colpetty People
Colpetty People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Colpetty People write by Ashok Ferry. This book was released on 2017-04-17. Colpetty People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this extraordinary debut, Ashok Ferry chronicles, in a gently probing voice, the journeys of characters seeking something beyond the barriers of nations and generations. His tales of social-climbing Sri Lankans, of the pathos of immigration, of rich people with poor taste, of ice-cream karma, of innocent love, eternity, and more take us to Colombo’s nouveau riche, hoity-toity returnees, ladies with buttery skin and square fingernails, old-fashioned aristocrats, and the poor mortals trapped between them. Ferry’s stories comprise characters that are ‘serious and fine and upstanding, and infinitely dull’, but also others like young John-John, who loses his childhood somewhere ‘high up in the air between Asmara and Rome’; the maid, Agnes of God, whose mango-sucking teeth ‘fly out at you like bats out of the mouth of a cave’; Ashoka, the immigrant who embodies his Sri Lankan identity only on the bus ride between home and work; and Professor Jayaweera who finds sterile freedoms caged in the ‘unbending, straight lines of Western Justice’. Absurd, sad, scathing and generous, but mostly wickedly funny, Colpetty People presents modern Sri Lankans as they navigate worlds between Ceylon and the West.
The Unmarriageable Man
The Unmarriageable Man - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Unmarriageable Man write by Ashok Ferrey. This book was released on 2021-03-15. The Unmarriageable Man available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sanjay de Silva lives in Colombo, under the thumb of a controlling Sri Lankan father, having lost his English mother at an early age. When his father is diagnosed with cancer, he feels the ground shifting under his feet, the balance of power realigning. Though it is something he has dreamed of all his life, he is uneasy when it happens. Learning that he is entitled to live in England-thanks to his half-English parentage-he arrives in south London. It is 1980, the start of the glorious blue-rinsed Thatcher years, when every girl looks like Princess Diana but not every boy looks like Prince Charles. He meets and falls in love with a fellow Sri Lankan, Janine, who is old enough to be his mother and famous within the acid-tongued Sri Lankan community as 'a hooker of the very highest class, with royal connections'. Sanjay manages to buy an old wreck of a house in Brixton and succeeds, against all odds, in converting it into two flats. But all is not well with that house. At night there are voices . . . This is the story of south London's first Asian builder who in eight years developed and sold eighty-four flats, cashing in his winnings just before the crash of 1988. But at its heart it is about grief: how each of us copes in our inimitable way with the hidden mysteries of family and the loss of loved ones. Because, as Sanjay is about to find out, grief is only the transmutation of love, of the very same chemical composition-liquid, undistilled-the one inevitably turning to the other like ice to water.
Culture Religion and Home-making in and Beyond South Asia
Culture Religion and Home-making in and Beyond South Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Culture Religion and Home-making in and Beyond South Asia write by James Ponniah. This book was released on 2020-09-01. Culture Religion and Home-making in and Beyond South Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Culture, Religion, and Home-making in and Beyond South Asia explores how the idea of the home is repurposed or re-envisioned in relation to experiences of modernity, urbanization, conflict, migration and displacement. It considers how these processes are reflected in rituals, beliefs and social practices. It explores the processes by which "home" may be constructed and how relocations often result in either the replication or rejection of traditional homes and identities. Ponniah examines the various contestations surrounding the categories of "home" and "religion," including interfaith families, urban spaces, and sacred places.
Love in the Tsunami
Love in the Tsunami - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Love in the Tsunami write by Ashok Ferrey. This book was released on 2012. Love in the Tsunami available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
