Homesick - Softcover

About the book: homesick a stunning, prize-winning collection of linked stories which traces the fine lines of politics, tradition and community it is new years eve, 1982, and the whole gang is at victor and nandinis house. The godfather is on repeat upstairs. Baila music is blaring from the record player in the lounge. Poppadoms are frying in the kitchen. And preethi, tipsy on youth and friendship and covert cigarettes out the window, just wants to belong. But what does that mean, to belong? from that new years party to a family funeral, via ghetto blasters and growing pains, through 717 and the world according to charlie chaplin, life in all of its complexity happens to preethi. Nil. Lolly. Rohan, and their tightly knotted sri lankan families in south london. About the author: roshi fernando roshi fernando was born in london of sri lankan parents. She has a phd in creative writing from the university of swansea. She won the 2009 impress prize for new writers, was shortlisted for the 2011 sunday times efg private bank award, longlisted for the 2011 frank oconnor international short story prize, was given a special commendation by the judges of the manchester fiction prize and was longlisted for the bridport prize and the fish prize, roshi fernando lives in gloucestershire with her husband and four children reviews a debut that can sit alongside zadie smiths white teeth and andrea levys small island . Powerful and revelator,- sunday times a rambunctious portrait of an extended sri lankan family in south london. Its as addictive as any full-length book by vikram seth or michael ondaatje- irish times roshi fernando. Winner of the 2009 impress prize, doesnt shirk from the harsh realities of the outcast .