Not quite paradise, an American sojourn in Sri Lanka, Adele Barker
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Not quite paradise, an American sojourn in Sri Lanka, Adele Barker
Language
eng
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non fiction
Main title
Not quite paradise
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317623411
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Adele Barker
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an American sojourn in Sri Lanka
Summary
"Anyone going to Sri Lanka should consider Adele Barker's Not Quite Paradise essential reading. Even travelers headed to other parts of the globeor those going no farther than their own living roomwill find this story of an American woman thoughtfully wending her way through the complexities of another country's culture and history fascinating." Kristin Ohlson, author of Stalking the Divine and co-author of Kabul Beauty School. Chronicles the author's travels in Sri Lanka, focusing on the differences between daily life there and in the United States, and the devastation suffered by the nation's people after the 2004 tsunami. An in-depth look at a beautiful island paradise devastated by a thirty-year war and the tsunami
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