The True Paradise

by Gamini Salgado (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1993

  $40.90

  Childhood in Ceylon is vividly portrayed in a sequence of mysterious stories and exotic vignettes which evoke the author's birthplace, the secretive pleasures of boyhood, and the poignance of Buddhism which stresses so strongly the ephemerality of life. The lyricism of the writing and the rich cast of characters make the book a delight. It portrays an exceptional person growing up in one culture and gradually being possessed by another, by European attitudes, but never losing the vibrant heart of his first years. The True Paradise has been compiled from his writings, after the author's untimely death in 1985, by his widow, Fenella Copplestone.

• Used

  Paperback
  1997

  $94.42

  Childhood in Ceylon is portrayed in this sequence of stories which evoke the author's birthplace, the pleasures of his childhood, and Buddhism. This book has been compiled from his writings by his widow, Fenella Copplestone.