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The Village in the Jungle ([New] ed.)

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This classic novel of colonial Ceylon (Sri Lanka), was first published in 1913 and is written by a prominent member of the Bloomsbury group, husband of Virginia Woolf.

It reads as if Thomas Hardy had been born among the heat, scent, sensuality and pungent mystery of the tropics.

Translated into both Tamil and Sinhalese, it is one of the best-loved and best-known stories in Sri Lanka.

It includes a new biographical afterword by Sir Christopher Ondaatje, author of "Woolf in Ceylon", and a short story, "Pearls before Swine", which vividly draws on Woolf's experience as a young District Commissioner.

This book reeks of first-hand knowledge of the colonial experience, and of its profound, malign disregard for the psychology and culture of its subject peoples.

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Eland Publishing Ltd
0907871291 / 9780907871293
Paperback / softback
823.912
25/11/2005
United Kingdom
English
Classics
209 p.
22 cm
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