Noontide Toll (SL Edition)

Vasantha retired early bought himself a van with his savings and now works as a driver for hire in Sri Lanka. As he ferries new entrepreneurs charity workers and itinerant families around the country he reveals with self-deprecating wit and folksy wisdom their uncertain lives after the end of a decades-long war. A superb collection of interlinked stories-perceptive sombre finely tuned-Noontide Toll draws an extraordinary portrait of post-war Sri Lanka grappling with the ghosts of its troubled past.