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This novel follows the lives of various Sri Lankan ex-pats in England and their intertwined family histories back home. While occasionally these types of novels strike a cord and manage to relate the cultural uniqueness of their country into our developed world context, this novel seemed to focus on a few spectacularly boring people and how they turned in and in on each other. My overwhelming emotion looking back on the book is disinterest. As far as I could figure, the characters could come from anywhere on the planet and be anywhere on the plant, and I will continue my search to get the feeling for Sri Lanka in some other book.