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On Sal Mal Lane

On Sal Mal Lane

Ru Freeman
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Sri Lanka, 1979. The Herath family has just moved to Sal Mal Lane, a quiet street disturbed only by the cries of the children whose triumphs and tragedies sustain the families that live there. As the neighbors adapt to the newcomers in different ways, the children fill their days with cricket matches, romantic crushes, and small rivalries. The innocence of the children—a beloved sister and her overprotective siblings, a rejected son and his twin sisters, two very different brothers—contrasts sharply with the petty prejudices of the adults charged with their care. But the tremors of civil war are mounting, and it is only a matter of time before the conflict engulfs them all and the sleepy neighborhood erupts in violence.

Tender and heartbreaking, On Sal Mal Lane is an evocative story of what was lost to a country and its people.

Imprint: India Penguin

Published: Feb/2014

ISBN: 9780143422808

Length : 408 Pages

MRP : ₹499.00

On Sal Mal Lane

Ru Freeman

Sri Lanka, 1979. The Herath family has just moved to Sal Mal Lane, a quiet street disturbed only by the cries of the children whose triumphs and tragedies sustain the families that live there. As the neighbors adapt to the newcomers in different ways, the children fill their days with cricket matches, romantic crushes, and small rivalries. The innocence of the children—a beloved sister and her overprotective siblings, a rejected son and his twin sisters, two very different brothers—contrasts sharply with the petty prejudices of the adults charged with their care. But the tremors of civil war are mounting, and it is only a matter of time before the conflict engulfs them all and the sleepy neighborhood erupts in violence.

Tender and heartbreaking, On Sal Mal Lane is an evocative story of what was lost to a country and its people.

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Ru Freeman

Ru Freeman is a Sri Lankan- American writer and activist. Her debut novel, A Disobedient Girl, was longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and translated into seven languages. She has been a fellow of the Bread Loaf Writers'Conference, Yaddo, and the Virginia Centre for the Creative Arts. She blogs for the Huffington Post on Literature and Politics and is a contributing editorial board member of the Asian American Literary Review. She calls both Sri Lanka and America home and writes about the people and countries underneath her skin .

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