Books similar like The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War

Funny Boy

In the world of his large family, affluent Tamils living in Colombo, Arjie is an oddity, a 'funny boy' who prefers dressing as a girl to playing cricket with his brother.

In FUNNY BOY we follow the li…

Buy this book on Amazon

Island of a Thousand Mirrors

Buy this book on Amazon

This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War

Buy this book on Amazon

Brotherless Night

In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as civil war devastates Sri Lanka.

Jaffna, 1981. Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But ove…

Buy this book on Amazon

Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—told through harrowing stories of the Philippines’ state-sanctioned killings of its citizens—from a jo…

Buy this book on Amazon

Pyre

Buy this book on Amazon

The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide

A riveting history—the first full account—of the involvement of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in the 1971 atrocities in Bangladesh that led to war between India and Pakistan, shaped the fate of As…

Buy this book on Amazon

River Spirit

The spellbinding new novel from New York Times Notable Author and Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela about an embattled young woman’s coming of age during the Mahdist War in 19th century Sudan.

Leila A…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira Lake and he h…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Line of Beauty

In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two chi…

Buy this book on Amazon

Running in the Family

Buy this book on Amazon

The Persians

Buy this book on Amazon

Cuba: An American History

Winner of The L. A. Times Book Prize (2021) in History

“Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States—…

Buy this book on Amazon

White Chrysanthemum

In the spirit of Lilac Girls, the heartbreaking history of Korea is brought to life in this deeply moving and redemptive debut that follows two sisters separated by World War II.

Korea, 1943. Hana has …

Buy this book on Amazon

Song of the Sun God

Nala and Rajan, a young couple, begin their married life in 1946, on the eve of Sri Lanka's independence from Britain. Arranged in marriage, they learn to love each other and protect their growing fam…

Buy this book on Amazon

Love Marriage

Buy this book on Amazon

A Passage North

Buy this book on Amazon

The Return of Faraz Ali

Buy this book on Amazon

My Friends

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and the unthinkable realities of exile

The trick time plays is to lull us into the belief that everything …

Buy this book on Amazon

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on a journey of many years – the story spooling outwards from the cramped neighbourhoods of Old Delhi into the burgeoning new metropolis and beyond, to the Va…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results of the corporation running a country.

In August 1765, the East India Company defeated the young Mugha…

Buy this book on Amazon

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

Mira Jacob's touching, often humorous, and utterly unique graphic memoir takes readers on her journey as a first-generation American. At an increasingly fraught time for immigrants and their families,…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Silent Coup: A History of India's Deep State

Buy this book on Amazon

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

In April of 1994, the government of Rwanda called on everyone in the Hutu majority to kill everyone in the Tutsi minority. Over the next three months, 800,000 Tutsis were murdered in the most unambigu…

Buy this book on Amazon

City of Silk

Buy this book on Amazon

My Sweet Girl

Buy this book on Amazon

Consent: A Memoir

In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, which began in the 1970s when she was a teenager and he was married with two children, Jill Ciment re…

Buy this book on Amazon

Nervous Conditions

A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century, this novel brings to the politics of decolonization theory the energy of women's ri…

Buy this book on Amazon

There Are No Dead Here: A Story of Murder and Denial in Colombia

The bloody story of the rise of paramilitaries in Colombia, told through three characters -- a fearless activist, a dogged journalist, and a relentless investigator -- whose lives intersected in the m…

Buy this book on Amazon

In the Shadow of the Banyan

For seven-year-old Raami, the shattering end of childhood begins with the footsteps of her father returning home in the early dawn hours bringing details of the civil war that has overwhelmed the stre…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War

Similar books (30)