Love in the Tsunami

Love in the Tsunami brings together a selection of Ashok Ferrey's short fiction and includes four brand-new stories. The title story, set against the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 describes Veena Patel's all-too-brief encounter with forbidden love. 'But Did I Tell You I Can't Dance?' is a hilarious fable about the occasional humiliations and the many heart-warming victories of old age. And in 'Maleeshya' Ashok himself makes a cameo appearance as a dead author who has embarrassingly come back to life.

Endlessly inventive and crackling with energy, Love in the Tsunami represents the very best writing in English from contemporary Sri Lanka.