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Whether you enjoy armchair travelling by being captured by captivating tales or like to read up on a destination before you visit in real life, these five books set in Sri Lanka offer a glimpse into this fascinating country.<\/p>\n

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Running in the Family<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Author Michael Ondaatje, who also wrote the novel The English Patient<\/em>, creates a fictionalised memoir with\u00a0Running in the Family<\/em>, telling the story of a Dutch-Ceylonese family and the main character\u2019s return to Sri Lanka in the late 1970s.<\/p>\n

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This Divided Island <\/strong><\/h4>\n

Written by an Indian journalist,\u00a0This Divided Island<\/em>\u00a0shares insight into the Sri Lankan War, which still affects contemporary life and culture as it only ended in 2009.<\/p>\n

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Serendipity<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Contemporary Sri Lankan writer Ashok Ferrey weaves a story about Piyumi Segarajasingham, a young barrister in eighties London, returning to Colombo after she gains responsibility for her family\u2019s share of an inheritance, the servants\u2019 quarters of a house her other relatives want to sell.<\/p>\n

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Island of a Thousand Mirrors<\/strong><\/h4>\n

From another contemporary Sri Lankan writer, Nayomi Munaweera,\u00a0Island of a Thousand Mirrors<\/em>\u00a0follows the story of a Sinhala girl and a Tamil girl sharing a younger perspective of the conflict between the two respective cultures.<\/p>\n

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The Tea Planter\u2019s Wife<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Set in 1920s Ceylon (the former name for Sri Lanka), this best-selling novel involves a young Englishwoman who marries a charming tea plantation owner and moves to Ceylon only to discover he’s keeping secrets about his past.<\/p>\n

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