6/28/2023 0 Comments Ruins by Rajith Savanadasa![]() Daughter Anoushka wants an iPod, and to be a modern girl, who doesn’t want to be too traditional. Latha, the servant, desires nothing more than a home, a place she can feel safe. Amidst these shadows, a family is slowly crumbling like the ruins around them. Set in Sri Lanka, in Colombo, in the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war, shadows of war and threats to daily life still exist. Ruins is a book unlike others I have read. Anoushka wants an iPod.Īnd Niranjan needs big money so he can leave them all behind. In the restless streets, crowded waiting rooms and glittering nightclubs of Colombo, five family members find their bonds stretched to breaking point in the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war. Synopsis: A country picking up the pieces, a family among the ruins. ![]() *I received a copy of this from the publisher for review* ![]()
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