'An impressive exploration of traumatic loss, done with delicacy.' -Romesh Gunesekera

'Powerful, tender and moving' - Abdulrazak Gurnah, Booker Prize nominee

'Bold and delicate. I loved it.' - Denise DeCaires Narain, University of Sussex

'It is a great book - a wonderful elegy to a childhood and country lost.' --Susheila Nasta, MBE, Editor, Wasafiri Biografía del autor Minoli Salgado was born in Kuala Lumpur and grew up in Sri Lanka and England. She has written extensively on postcolonial literature and is the author of the acclaimed book,Writing Sri Lanka.