Mosquito

Set adrift by the recent death of his wife Theo Samarajeeva abandons hiscomfortable writers life in London and returns to Sri Lanka his wartornhomeland. There h... » 

Set adrift by the recent death of his wife Theo Samarajeeva abandons hiscomfortable writers life in London and returns to Sri Lanka his wartornhomeland. There he meets Nulani a talented and enigmatic young artist and anunorthodox and tenuous love blossoms between this unlikely pair. But when theinsurgency explodes their precarious world is torn apart. Theo is held captiveand stripped of everything he once held dear. Nulani is forced into exile. Byturns heartbreaking and uplifting Mosquito is a first novel of remarkablebeauty and compelling power. «