LEADER 04158nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910955859303321 005 20241107094310.0 010 $a0-8070-0062-0 035 $a(CKB)2520000000007731 035 $a(OCoLC)647833133 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10355633 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000341007 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11264196 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000341007 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10388772 035 $a(PQKB)10282541 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3118071 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6077026 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3118071 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10355633 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL487490 035 $a(OCoLC)922968006 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6077026 035 $a(OCoLC)1014262267 035 $a(ODN)ODN0000293432 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000007731 100 $a20090326d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNot quite paradise $ean American sojourn in Sri Lanka /$fAdele Barker 210 $aBoston $cBeacon Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (312 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-8070-0061-2 311 08$a1-299-56240-X 327 $aIntro -- Not Quite Paradise -- Part I -- Chapter 1: Going and Coming I -- Chapter 2: Student Life -- Chapter 3: Housekeeping -- Chapter 4: Insurrections in the Hills -- Chapter 5: Hot Curry -- Chapter 6: Rain -- Chapter 7: The War Next Door -- Chapter 8: Colombo -- Chapter 9: Colonialist Torpor -- Chapter 10: Life in a Different Key -- Chapter 11: Gihin Ennam -- Part II -- Chapter 12: When the Sea Came to the Land -- Chapter 13: Home -- Chapter 14: Up and Down the Mountain -- Chapter 15: The Story of a Wave -- Chapter 16: Early Warning System -- Chapter 17: Arugam Bay -- Chapter 18: Batti -- Chapter 19: The Road to Jaffna -- Chapter 20: In Jaffna -- Chapter 21: Reading the Classics -- Chapter 22: Leaving Jaffna -- Chapter 23: Going and Coming II -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments. 330 $aA chronicle of life on the resplendent island, combining the immediacy of memoir with the vividness of travelogue and reportage   Adele Barker and her son, Noah, settled into the central highlands of Sri Lanka for an eighteen-month sojourn, immersing themselves in the customs, cultures, and landscapes of the island?its elephants, birds, and monkeys; its hot curries and sweet mangoes; the cacophony of its markets; the resonant evening chants from its temples. They hear stories of the island?s colorful past and its twenty-five-year civil war between the Sinhalese majority and the Tamil Tigers. When, having returned home to Tucson, Barker awakes on December 26, 2004, to see televised images of the island?s southern shore disappearing into the ocean, she decides she must go back. Traveling from the southernmost coasts to the farthest outposts of the Tamil north, she witnesses the ravages of the tsunami that killed forty-eight thousand Sri Lankans in the space of twenty minutes, and reports from the ground on the triumphs and failures of relief efforts. Combining the immediacy of memoir and the vividness of travelogue with the insight of the best reportage, Not Quite Paradise chronicles life in a place few have ever visited. 606 $aEthnic conflict$zSri Lanka 606 $aWar and society$zSri Lanka 606 $aTsunamis$zSri Lanka 606 $aIndian Ocean Tsunami, 2004 606 $aTeachers$zSri Lanka$vBiography 607 $aSri Lanka$xDescription and travel 607 $aSri Lanka$xEthnic relations 607 $aSri Lanka$xHistory$yCivil War, 1983-2009 615 0$aEthnic conflict 615 0$aWar and society 615 0$aTsunamis 615 0$aIndian Ocean Tsunami, 2004. 615 0$aTeachers 676 $a954.9303/2092 686 $aBIO026000$aTRV003060$aTRV010000$2bisacsh 700 $aBarker$b Adele Marie$f1946-$01819608 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910955859303321 996 $aNot quite paradise$94380003 997 $aUNINA