Reading and signing, Monday, March 15th,7.00pm. Politics & Prose Bookstore, 5015 Connecticut Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20008
In addition to reading excerpts, Adele will be talking about human rights issues and the post-war situation on the island.
“Essential reading. Even travellers headed to other parts of the globe – or those going no farther than their own living room- will find this story of an American woman thoughtfully wending her way through the complexities of another country’s culture and history fascinating.”
Kristen Ohlson, author of Stalking the Divine and co -author of Kabul Beauty School
“Against the background of a most beautiful country and through the tragedies that have marred its recent history, her love of the land and for its people won a high place in this reader’s heart.” Mary Oliver, Pulitzer Prize- winning poet
Not Quite Paradise
AN AMERICAN SOJOURN IN SRI LANKA by Adele Barker
Reading and signing, Monday, March 15th,7.00pm.
Politics & Prose Bookstore, 5015 Connecticut Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20008
In addition to reading excerpts, Adele will be talking about human rights issues and the post-war situation on the island.
“Essential reading. Even travellers headed to other parts of the globe – or those going no farther than their own living room- will find this story of an American woman thoughtfully wending her way through the complexities of another country’s culture and history fascinating.”
Kristen Ohlson, author of Stalking the Divine and co -author of Kabul Beauty School
“Against the background of a most beautiful country and through the tragedies that have marred its recent history, her love of the land and for its people won a high place in this reader’s heart.”
Mary Oliver, Pulitzer Prize- winning poet
For information www.politics-prose.com
Recent Posts
Exhuming the Truth: Sri Lanka’s Mass Graves and the Search for the Disappeared
August 26, 202643 Years Since Black July: The Accountability Gap Revisited
July 20, 2026From Welikada to Negombo: four decades of impunity in Sri Lanka’s prisons
July 13, 2026Archives
Categories