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The story is set in the 1920s in Cinnamon Gardens, a wealthy suburb of Colombo, Sri Lanka.It depicts the political unrest at the end of Britain’s colonial rule. The novel illustrates the socio-political climate of 1920s Sri Lanka, which helps to elucidate many of the issues that continue to plague modern-day Sri Lanka.
Chai Time in Cinnamon Gardens is an enticing, if not entirely realised, opportunity for a wider conversation about Australia, the diversity of its people and the gaps in our collective cultural knowledge. This is a book that requires concentration and full immersion – but it will reward the reader for that investment." [3]
The book tells two separate but related tales: first, the romance between Nacib Saad, a respectable bar owner of Syrian origin, and his new cook Gabriela, an innocent and captivating migrant worker from the impoverished interior. The gap between the worlds of Nacib Saad and Gabriela make their romance a challenge to the unwritten rules of ...
The Street of Crocodiles, also known as The Cinnamon Shops (Polish: Sklepy cynamonowe, lit. ' Cinnamon Shops ' ), is a 1934 collection of short stories written by Bruno Schulz . First published in Polish, the collection was translated into English by Celina Wieniewska [ pl ] in 1963.
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“I couldn’t remove a book because it has ideas we don’t like,” says Bette Davis’s character in a “Storm Center,” a 1956 drama about Communism and book banning.
Cinnamon Skin (1982) is the twentieth novel in the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald. Like a few other books in the series, McGee ends up traveling to Mexico to solve a crime. His friend Meyer's niece is killed by a bomb on the John Maynard Keynes , Meyer's houseboat, with two other people.
She followed up with Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens in 2022. It won the 2023 Miles Franklin Award [9] and was longlisted for the Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover at the 2023 Australian Publishers' Association Book Design Awards for Jessica Cruickshank's design. [10] Her fourth novel, Safe Haven, was published in May 2024 by Ultimo Press ...