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  • The Governor’s Lover
    Roderic Grigson
    Life was difficult for Lovinia as the half-Sinhalese, half-Portuguese lead dancer in her father’s dance troupe. But when she catches the eye of the newly arrived Governor of the Crown Colony of Ceylon, her fortunes change dramatically.The autocratic Governor, smitten by Lovinia’s obvious charms but wary of the disapprovals of a narrow-minded British society, builds a stately co...
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    13,09 €

  • AFTER THE FLAMES
    Roderic Grigson
    Set during the background of the recent civil war in Sri Lanka, this somewhat sad and ultimately realistic story traces the lives of two individuals from vastly different backgrounds. Nadesan is a trained mechanic working in the north-east of the country in his father’s garage. Traumatized by the loss of his young family at the hands of the military and obsessed by the need to ...
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    14,31 €

  • AFTER THE FLAMES
    Roderic Grigson
    A bitter, angry mechanic sits in an old Ford Escort parked in the central bus terminal during evening rush hour, knowing he’s about to die in the next few minutes. Devastated by what’s happened to his young family in his home town, Nadesan doesn’t want anyone living in the capital city to ever feel safe again. A local traffic policeman angrily raps on the car window, gesturing ...
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    24,56 €

  • THE SULLEN HILLS
    Roderic Grigson
    One of David’s intelligence operatives’ stumbles across a plot by a group of tea estate workers to establish an independent state in the middle of the country. David, on active duty in the north, must convince his superiors that the threat in the hill country is real but then something goes terribly wrong.Priyani in her role as an international relief coordinator must contend w...
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    29,78 €

  • THE SULLEN HILLS
    Roderic Grigson
    One of David’s intelligence operatives’ stumbles across a plot by a group of tea estate workers to establish an independent state in the middle of the country. David, on active duty in the north, must convince his superiors that the threat in the hill country is real but then something goes terribly wrong.Priyani in her role as an international relief coordinator must contend w...
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    21,56 €

  • Sacred Tears
    Roderic Grigson
    1982 and Sami is far from home, trapped in war-torn Beirut, a city under siege by the Israelis. All he wants is to go home to his family in Sri Lanka but in order to stay alive he must learn to kill. David, a captain in the Sri Lankan army, is sent to the steamy jungles in the north of the country as punishment for an indiscretion and is thrown into the brutal insurrection by m...
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    27,27 €