Sawnet - Bookshelf - Karen Roberts
Karen Roberts was born in 1965 in Sri Lanka. She worked in advertising
in Colombo and Dubai, and now lives in California.
Her first novel, Flower Boy, was published by Random House in
2000. Her
novels have been translated into Dutch, Greek, Portuguese and Spanish.
Bibliography
- The Lament of the Dhobi Woman
Perera-Hussein Books, Sri Lanka (2010)
- Seelawathie falls in love. Her forbidden relationship challenges the rigid boundaries of society and leads to a cataclysmic end of innocence. The Lament of the Dhobi Woman explores the issue of class in Colombo society and the frasgile intricacies of love and forgiveness.
- July
. (2002)
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- Review
by Anita Nair
- Flower Boy
Random House. (2000)
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- Review
in the Austin Chronicle
- Review
by Zaheera Jiwaji in the Charlotte Austin Review.
- Review
by Anderson Tepper in the New York Times.
- Review by Carolyn See in the Washington Post
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