Review: The Village in the Jungle
User Review - Raisa - GoodreadsThis book deserves more recognition than it's gotten. While it's seen as a classic in Sri Lanka, I don't know that it is elsewhere. This book, set mostly in Sri Lankan jungle, follows the inhabitants ... Read full review
Review: The Village in the Jungle
User Review - GoodreadsI knew Leonard Woolf wrote about political and colonial issues for the Fabian society, that he was generally acknowledged as the leader of the Bloomsbury group and I knew he was married to Virginia. I ...
Review: The Village in the Jungle
User Review - Ian - GoodreadsSuccessfully depicts the hardscrabble existence of rural poor amidst the oppressive atmosphere of the ever invasive wilderness that eventually reclaims everything. Read full review
Review: The Village in the Jungle
User Review - Stuart Estell - GoodreadsThere are moments towards the end of this novel that are absolutely heartbreaking. It's a bit slow in places, and a bit "colonial" in feel, but it's a product of its time in its view of the primitive native. If you can take account of that while reading it, it's superb. Read full review
Review: The Village in the Jungle
User Review - Andrea - GoodreadsSet in colonial Ceylon, this novel is vivid and readable. While the author clearly illustrates a particular culture and time, that of a rural family in the "dry" forest area, where life is ... Read full review
Review: The Village in the Jungle
User Review - Shavindi Ediriarachchi - GoodreadsThe rural air of Sri Lankan Villagers in the remote of Beddegama. Read full review
Review: The Village in the Jungle
User Review - Nafiza - GoodreadsMaybe I'm reading it differently but he represents the "people" as less than people. Dehumanizes them in the grossest of manners. This may either be intentional or this may just be the way he saw the ... Read full review
Review: The Village in the Jungle
User Review - wintermute314 - GoodreadsBeautiful book about a very small village (actually a few huts) in the jungle of Ceylon around 1900. Intrigues between the people, murder, deceit,... All very realistically even naturalistically described but the husband of Virginia Woolf who was a diplomat at that time in Ceylon. Read full review
Review: The Village in the Jungle
User Review - Henry - GoodreadsCool to see how different Leonard and Virginia were as writers. Reads like a parable. Exotic but authoritative. The choice of flat, formal language for translated dialogue works well here to transfer the flavor of personality over from vernacular to content. Read full review
Review: The Village in the Jungle
User Review - Beth - GoodreadsBrilliant weaving of "Western" and "Eastern" narrative styles. Leonard Woolf deserves to be brought out from the shadow of Virginia. Read full review
