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Mar 3, 2021 · School Library Book List Approved by the Board of Educational Publications Publication Advisory Board – 2019/2020/2021 ... 10120 Sri Lanka. +94 112 785141 - 50 ...
2023 Summer Learning. All students are expected to complete assigned summer reading for their Communication Arts (English) class and level. There also will be summer assignments in AP European History and voluntary practice in Mathematics. All assignments will be listed on this page as they become available.
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- My Sweet Girl by Amanda Jayatissa
- Song of The Sun God by Shankari Chandran
- The Amazing Racist by Chhimi Tenduf-La
- Swimming in The Monsoon Sea by Shyam Selvadurai
- Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
- A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam
- The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
- On Sal Mal Lane by Ru Freeman
- Upon A Sleepless Isle by Andrew Fidel Fernando
- Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
One of the more recent books about Sri Lanka shows a (hopefully) new trend in Sri Lankan literature in this debut novel. Since leaving her days at a Sri Lankan orphanage behind, Paloma has been living the American Dream. She’s had excellent schooling and plenty of disposable income from her perfect Californian parents, but the bubble had to burst e...
Just as Sri Lanka is about to become independent from British rule, young couple Nala and Rajan are married. Brought together through arrangement, the two learn to love each other and begin a family. But as civil war breaks out and racial tensions rise, Nala and Rajan must take increasingly drastic steps in order to ensure their family’s survival. ...
There aren’t many books about Sri Lanka with titles this tongue-in-cheek! While working in an international school in Colombo, English teacher Eddie Trusted falls for local Sri Lankan beauty Menaka Rupasinghe. All Eddie wants to do is settle down with his beloved Menaka, but there’s one seemingly immovable obstacle in the way: her father, Mr. Thila...
It’s monsoon season in Sri Lanka; the year is 1980, and 14-year-old Amrith is living with his Aunt Bundle and his Uncle Lucky. Life in their household is cheerful and pleasant, but Amrith has some dramatic plans. Namely, he wants to appear in his school’s production of Shakespeare’s Othello. But even a simple desire such as this can be thrown into ...
In one of the bleakest and most moving books about Sri Lanka of recent times, author Sonali Deraniyagala tells of her emotional road to recovery from the loss of her family. When the tsunami of December 26th, 2004 hit the eastern side of Sri Lanka, Sonali and her family were already trying to escape. Having noticed the rising sea, she gathered ever...
A Passage Northis one of the most introspective books about Sri Lanka and delves into difficult topics like trauma, grief, death, family and so much more. Krishan, a young Sri Lankan Tamil man, is traveling north from Colombo to attend the funeral of his grandmother’s caretaker, Rani. As he travels further north, he is confronted by the effects of ...
Maali Almeida is not having a good day. Because he’s dead. Having woken up in something akin to a celestial visa office, he is distressed by the knowledge that he has no idea who killed him. The list of possible murderers is worryingly long, especially because Maali Almeida had not lived the conventional life of a Sri Lankan citizen. He’s been a mi...
The residents of Sal Mal Lane are a microcosm of Sri Lanka. There are people from many backgrounds, ethnicities, social statuses, and poverty levels, and it’s in this environment that the Herath family moves at the start of the novel. While the adults adjust to their arrival, the children simply play together in the quiet street. But as civil war e...
As a self-proclaimed combination of “local and tourist” in his own country, author and cricket commentator Andrew Fidel Fernando offers an observant travelog of Sri Lanka. Traversing mountains and marshlands, paddy fields, and jungles – by way of various standards of hotels – Fernando covers many of the wonders and mysteries this country has to off...
In one of the more crime-orientated books set in Sri Lanka on this list, we follow the titular Anil Tissera, a forensic pathologist, as she returns to her homeland of Sri Lanka. It is the 1980s and the Sri Lankan civil war is becoming increasingly more violent with each passing day. Anil has been sent by the United Nations to look into potential wa...
- Anil’s Ghost. By Michael Ondaatje (2001) My Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars. “American movies, English books – remember how they all end?” Gamini asked that night.
- Cinnamon Gardens. By Shyam Selvadurai (2000) My Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars. “Annalukshmi folded her arms to her chest and prayed, not to God but to her better self, for the strength to wait, to hold fast to her ideals, even when there was nothing ot pin her dreams on.”
- Funny Boy. By Shyam Selvadurai (2015) My Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars. “Right and wrong, fair and unfair had nothing to do with how things really were. I thought of Shehan and myself.
- Island of a Thousand Mirrors. By Nayomi Munaweera (2014) My Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars. “We have learned not to care about the state of that other place even as it burns or drowns.”
Jan 11, 2009 · Return to Sri Lanka: Travels in a Paradoxical Land. by Razeen Sally. 1 The Sri Lanka Reader: History, Culture, Politics by John Clifford Holt. 2 An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon by Robert Knox. 3 The Road to Peradeniya: An Autobiography by Ivor Jennings. 4 When Memory Dies by A. Sivanandan.
Nov 27, 2020 · Educational Publications Department (EduPub) direct connect to school community in Sri Lanka. The Edu. department now providing Digital textbooks for primary and secondary schools from Grade 1 to 13. පෙළපොත්
Jan 31, 2019 · Toggle. Books on Sri Lanka Everyone Should Read. #1 The Tea planters Wife (Dinah Jefferies) #2 Island of a Thousand Mirrors (Nayomi Munaweera) #3 Elephant Complex: Travels in Sri Lanka (John Gimlette) #4 The Teardrop Island: Following Victorian Footsteps Across Sri Lanka (Cherry Briggs) #5 The Village in the Jungle (Leonard Woolf)
