Biography: Adele Barker, who was awarded a UCross Fellowship for her work on this book, is the author and editor of five books on Russian literature and culture. She has taught at the universities of Arizona and Washington. Most recently, she received a Fulbright Senior Scholar grant to teach and write in Sri Lanka.

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Not Quite Paradise: An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka Author: Adele Barker Binding Information: Cloth  Trade Code: 00C Price: $24.95 In stock. Weaving together reporting, travelogue, and personal narrative, debut author Adele Barker brings American readers with her to experience Sri Lanka, "the resplendent island" that seems to hang like a teardrop from the tip of India. Barker's account of the year and a half she spent living and teaching there moves deftly from the daily, personal details of Sri Lankan life and culture to reports on the war between the government and the Tamil Tigers, and the 2004 tsunami in which forty-eight thousand Sri Lankans died in the space of twenty minutes. Qty:

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Not Quite Paradise: An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka Author: Adele Barker Binding Information: Paperback  Trade Code: 00P Price: $18.00  Backorder policy Not yet published. Will ship on: January 4, 2011 Missing neither the nuances of the peaceful Buddhist pace of life nor the explosive violence of its protracted civil war and the 2004 tsunami, Adele Barker offers an eye-opening account of the "pearl" of the Indian Ocean, inviting American readers to experience firsthand the vivid beauty and turmoil of a place few have ever visited. Qty:

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