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The Sweet and Simple Kind

Name: The Sweet and Simple Kind
Author: Yasmine Gooneratne
ISBN: 9789558897119

by Yasmine Gooneratne

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Overview

The Sweet and Simple Kind is an engrossing and dramatic family saga set against the backdrop of Ceylon’s turbulent evolution into Sri Lanka.

Resonant in its social insights and beautifully written, The Sweet and Simple Kind offers a richly imagined world of love, political chicanery and family turmoil in the newly independent Sri Lanka of the 1950s and 60s. As an intensely political family attempts to balance language with religion, and privilege with equity, two smart, westernised young women — cousins Tsunami and Latha — pursue their own personal freedoms. The Sweet and Simple Kind enchants us with its combination of authenticity, humour and passion.

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Book by Gooneratne, Yasmine

About the Author, Yasmine Gooneratne

Born in Colombo, educated at the Universities of Ceylon and Cambridge, Emeritus Professor Yasmine Gooneratne has taught, researched and published in the fields of English and Postcolonial Literature for thirty-five years. Her published books include studies of Jane Austen, Alexander Pope, Leonard Woolf and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. In recognition of her contribution to international scholarship she has been awarded the Order of Australia, Macquarie University’s first higher doctoral degree (D.Litt.) and the Samvad India Foundation’s Raja Rao Award, and Sri Lanka’s Sahithyarathna (“Jewel of Literature”) Award for lifetime achievement in literature.