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Not Quite Paradise: An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka

Adele Marie Barker

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Description:An in-depth look at a beautiful island paradise devastated by a thirty-year war and the tsunami. Weaving together reporting, travelogue, and personal narrative, debut author Adele Barker brings American readers with her to experience Sri Lanka, “the resplendent island” that seems to hang like a teardrop from the tip of India. Barker’s account of the year and a half she spent living and teaching there moves deftly from the daily, personal details of Sri Lankan life and culture to reports on the war between the government and the Tamil Tigers, and the 2004 tsunami in which forty-eight thousand Sri Lankans died in the space of twenty minutes.Life on the island is complex for a Westerner, and Barker does not miss any of the nuances: the beauty and the bugs; the peaceful, Buddhist pace of life; and the explosive ravages of civil war. Barker acquaints us with the history of the place, the literature, and the traditions of Buddhism, Hinduism, missionary Christianity, and ancient myths. Not Quite Paradise offers a comprehensive, eye-opening account of the “pearl” of the Indian Ocean and a rare perspective on the massive devastation of the tsunami of December 26, 2004.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Not Quite Paradise: An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka. To get started finding Not Quite Paradise: An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: An in-depth look at a beautiful island paradise devastated by a thirty-year war and the tsunami. Weaving together reporting, travelogue, and personal narrative, debut author Adele Barker brings American readers with her to experience Sri Lanka, “the resplendent island” that seems to hang like a teardrop from the tip of India. Barker’s account of the year and a half she spent living and teaching there moves deftly from the daily, personal details of Sri Lankan life and culture to reports on the war between the government and the Tamil Tigers, and the 2004 tsunami in which forty-eight thousand Sri Lankans died in the space of twenty minutes.Life on the island is complex for a Westerner, and Barker does not miss any of the nuances: the beauty and the bugs; the peaceful, Buddhist pace of life; and the explosive ravages of civil war. Barker acquaints us with the history of the place, the literature, and the traditions of Buddhism, Hinduism, missionary Christianity, and ancient myths. Not Quite Paradise offers a comprehensive, eye-opening account of the “pearl” of the Indian Ocean and a rare perspective on the massive devastation of the tsunami of December 26, 2004.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Not Quite Paradise: An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka. To get started finding Not Quite Paradise: An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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