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Azad, Yasmin

Summary: This sharply insightful memoir depicts a young Muslim girl's struggle to balance the traditions of a loving yet conservative father, who wants to keep her safe, against the more liberal Westernized Sri Lankan world outside. This memoir provides a glimpse into the microcosmic Galle Fort Muslim community of the 1960s post independent Sri Lanka. -- from cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Perera-Hussein Publishing House 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AZAD, YASMIN AZA

Summary: "Drawn from a cache of personal video recordings from the past 22 years, director Steve Loveridge's Sundance award winning MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. is a startlingly personal profile of the critically acclaimed artist, chronicling her remarkable journey from refugee immigrant to pop star. She began as Matangi. Daughter of the founder of Sri Lanka's armed Tamil resistance, she hid from the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MAT

Dix, Benjamin

Summary: "In the tradition of Maus, Palestine, and Persepolis, Vanni is a graphic novel documenting the human side of the conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the “Tamil Tigers.” Told from the perspective of a single family, it takes readers through the horrors and life-changing decisions individuals are forced to make when caught up in someone else’s war. Set in the northern region of Sri...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pennsylvania State University Press 2023

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 954.9303 DIX

Ondaatje, Michael

2 holds on 1 copy

Summary: An autobiographical journey of discovery gathers together fragments of memory, experience, and family history in order to understand the meaning of his parents' legacy and his own heritage.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 1993

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 OND

Deraniyagala, Sonali.

Summary: A memoir of the author's experiences as a survivor of the 2004 tsunami that killed her parents, husband, and two young sons recounts her struggles with profound grief and survivor's guilt and her gradual steps toward healing.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DERANIYAGALA, SONALI DER

Munaweera, Nayomi.

Summary: "Before violence tore apart the tapestry of Sri Lanka and turned its pristine beaches red, there were two families. Yasodhara tells the story of her own Sinhala family, rich in love, with everything they could ask for. As a child in idyllic Colombo, Yasodhara's and her siblings' lives are shaped by social hierarchies, their parents' ambitions, teenage love and, subtly, the differences between...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUN

Karunatilaka, Shehan

Summary: "Winner of the 2022 Booker Prize, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is a searing satire set amid the mayhem of the Sri Lankan civil war. Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida--war photographer, gambler, and closet queen--has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. In a country where scores are...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAR

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAR

Pethiyagoda, Nanda

Summary: "Sri Lanka is a diverse country, made up of many different ethnic and language groups. Readers discover the details about what life is like in this South Asian nation-from its history and economy to its environment and the lifestyles of its people. Colorful photographs give readers an up-close look at this island and those who call it home, and features such as sidebars and fact boxes provide...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square Publishing 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 954.93 PET

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