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Rumours from the Coconut Wireless
Paperback
Publisher: Fazal Abubakkar Esaf
Published: Aug 21 2025
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.24 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Sri Lanka is a country where stories hunt for you
It's a rumour.
At least, that's what I was told by a man at a roadside kadé who claimed to have played cricket with ghosts and dated a woman who later became President. The island doesn't always make sense. Its timelines twist, its truths wobble, and its stories - well, they multiply faster than potholes in monsoon season.
This book is a collection of those stories - surreal, satirical, possibly slanderous. But under the absurdity lies something very real: a land still unpacking its colonial hangover, wrestling its political contradictions, and trying to keep dancing to baila through blackout after blackout.
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