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In the pent-up heat of Colombo, piece by piece a family comes apart . . . A stunning debut novel from a fresh new voice in Australian fiction, for fans of Zadie Smith and Rohinton Mistry.
About the author
Rajith Savanadasa was born in Sri Lanka and now lives in Melbourne. He turned to creative writing in the final year of an engineering degree, which he followed up with the Professional Writing and Editing course at RMIT University. He was shortlisted for the Asia-Europe Foundation short story prize in 2013, the Fish Publishing short story prize in 2013, received a Wheeler Centre Hotdesk Fellowship in 2014 and was part of the QWC/Hachette Manuscript Development Program in 2014. RUINS is his debut novel. Rajith is also the founder and primary contributor to Open City Stories, a website documenting the lives of a group of asylum seekers in Melbourne.
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Summary
In the pent-up heat of Colombo, piece by piece a family comes apart . . . A stunning debut novel from a fresh new voice in Australian fiction, for fans of Zadie Smith and Rohinton Mistry.
Foreword
In the pent-up heat of Colombo, piece by piece a family comes apart . . .
A stunning debut novel from a fresh new voice in Australian fiction, for fans of Zadie Smith and Rohinton Mistry.
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The whole reason why I picked up ruins was to discover and explore a different way of life!
