Cinnamon Garden
(Shyam Selvadurai)
A very well written novel in which the individual stories of each one of the personages interacting between themselves in their emocional ar family relationships represent each one of the political, religious or social tendencies iof the colonial Ceylon in the 1920s.
Cinnamon Garden, an aristocratic neighborhood in Colombo, Ceylon, is the setting of this story where cingaleses, tamils, mixed race people adn brittish live together and debate themselves between their millenary customs or the new one introduced by the colonialists, the christianism or the traditional religions, the social liberalization or the cast prejudice, the colonial status quo or independency, tradicionalim of progress, a debate that confront each one of the personages and ruled their lives.
A story masterly written recommended for those readers who enjoy a novel where history and manners mixed with a good trama.
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