![]() ![]() It is warm, richly characterised, fast-moving in its narrative and convincing in its detail. The second, staunchly patriarchal, consists of their cousin, the rich and influential Mudaliyar Navaratnam, his wife, younger son Balandran, and daughter-in-law Sonia.Ĭinnamon Gardens is a lovely novel. The first, largely matriarchal, consists of Louisa who, having abandoned her husband when he renounced Christianity, is bringing up her three daughters, Annulukshmi, Kumudini and Manohari, alone. In alternate chapters, Selvadurai focuses on two related families who live in the exclusive Colombo suburb which gives the book its title. ![]() His first novel, Funny Boy, contained a beautifully observed portrait of Tamil family life in the Seventies his second, Cinnamon Gardens, offers an equally accomplished and still wider-ranging portrait of Tamil family life in Twenties Ceylon. ![]() Now Sri Lanka has found an expert cartographer in Shyam Selvadurai. INDIA HAS become an increasingly familiar setting on the Western fictional map, but other parts of Asia remain comparatively uncharted. ![]()
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