Black Swans and Other Stories

The stories gathered in this volume display a literary imagination of high order wedded to a probing mind that should command our attention. A Sri Lankan¨Cborn black Australian visits Amsterdam only to be confronted by the ambivalence and complexities of his identity; a Sri Lankan family arrives in Perth their new home ¡­a newly arrived immigrant father through the experiences of his daughter faces up to the realities of racism; a husband is caught between the power of nostalgia and the material comforts of the present; a father and son go out looking for ice-cream as they encounter the inescapable ramifications of multiculturalism in Australia. It is through situations such as these that Sunil Govinnage has sought to focus attention ¡­ and the desire to map the variable meanings of home and exile.