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Ru Freeman
There's a formal bio on www.rufreeman.com. My first publication was when I wrote to the newspapers in Sri Lanka, protesting that a cartoon program I liked to watch had been interrupted by a broadcast by then President, J.R. Jayawardena. Despite this, I went on to win, among other things, a... show more

There's a formal bio on www.rufreeman.com. My first publication was when I wrote to the newspapers in Sri Lanka, protesting that a cartoon program I liked to watch had been interrupted by a broadcast by then President, J.R. Jayawardena. Despite this, I went on to win, among other things, a Presidential Award for creative writing. I hail from a family of writers. The stanza at the beginning of my first novel is from one of my father's poems and I was taught literary criticism and an appreciation for language by my mother.
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On Sal Mal Lane is a well constructed novel that chronicles the lives of a street of diverse neighbors through the early 1980s in Sri Lanka. It is also utterly captivating. The inhabitants of Sal Mal Lane are from all ethnic groups, but how they raise children, how those children relate to their par...
Bright and Shiny Shiny
Bright and Shiny Shiny rated it 12 years ago
3/4/13 SA
Bright and Shiny Shiny
Bright and Shiny Shiny rated it 12 years ago
3/4/13 SA
Tiny Library
Tiny Library rated it 13 years ago
Latha is a servant girl, bought up alongside the daughter of a rich Sri Lankan family. Exposed daily to the luxuries that wealth can bring, she resents her status as a servant and disobeys in small ways - stealing a bar of rose-scented soap for her own use or making extra lime juice to drink. As s...
sarahc
sarahc rated it 13 years ago
Great book! Very relevant to the literary world today, and a great idea for an anthology. Very unique; definitely worth checking it out!
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