The Jam Fruit TreeWinner of the Gratiean Memorial Prize for the best work in English Literature by a Sri Lankan for 1993 Hilarious, affectionate, candid and moving, this is the story of the Burghers of Sri Lanka... Who are the Burghers? Descended from the Dutch, the Portuguese, the British and other foreigners who arrived in the island-nation of Sri Lanka (and 'mingled' with the local inhabitants), the Burghers often stand out because of their curiously mixed features-grey eyes in an otherwise Dravid face, for instance.... A handsome and guileless people, the Burghers have always lived it up, forever willing to 'put a party'. Carl Muller, a Burgher himself, writes in this quasi-fictional, engaging biography of the lives of his people; they emerge, at the end of his story, as a race of fun-loving, hardy people, much like the jam fruit tree which simply refuses to be contained or destroyed. |
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Page 175
... roads named Vaverset Place , Pennycuick Lane , Hampden Lane , Manning Place , Chatham Street , Vauxhall Street , MacCallum Road , Torrington Square , Maitland Crescent , Dickman's Road , Ward place , etc. etc. etc. In the hill country ...
... roads named Vaverset Place , Pennycuick Lane , Hampden Lane , Manning Place , Chatham Street , Vauxhall Street , MacCallum Road , Torrington Square , Maitland Crescent , Dickman's Road , Ward place , etc. etc. etc. In the hill country ...
Page 179
... Road and will come to the church . There , he falls asleep and snores loud and long while everyone tries to drown him with spirited renderings of ' Adeste Fideles ' and Joy to the World ' . But he wakes up when it is all over to stumble ...
... Road and will come to the church . There , he falls asleep and snores loud and long while everyone tries to drown him with spirited renderings of ' Adeste Fideles ' and Joy to the World ' . But he wakes up when it is all over to stumble ...
Page 203
... road . Above the planes banked and swooped and tree tops swayed in the rush of their arcing and wheeling . He heard the phut - phut - phut of guns and saw long lines of red dust kick up on the road . Sonnaboy ran . He raced through the ...
... road . Above the planes banked and swooped and tree tops swayed in the rush of their arcing and wheeling . He heard the phut - phut - phut of guns and saw long lines of red dust kick up on the road . Sonnaboy ran . He raced through the ...
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