On Sal Mal Lane (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781555976422)

In the tradition of In the Time of the Butterflies and The Kite Runner, a tender, evocative novel about the years leading up to the Sri Lankan civil war

* A Library Journal Best Indie Fiction of 2013 * A Largehearted Boy Best Book of the Year *

On the day the Herath family moves in, Sal Mal Lane is still a quiet street, disturbed only by the cries of the children whose triumphs and tragedies sustain the families that live there. As the neighbors adapt to the newcomers in different ways, the children fill their days with cricket matches, romantic crushes, and small rivalries. But the tremors of civil war are mounting, and the conflict threatens to engulf them all.
In a heartrending novel poised between the past and the future, the innocence of the children--a beloved sister and her overprotective siblings, a rejected son and his twin sisters, two very different brothers--contrasts sharply with the petty prejudices of the adults charged with their care. In Ru Freeman's masterful hands, On Sal Mal Lane, a story of what was lost to a country and her people, becomes a resounding cry for reconciliation.

Author: Ru Freeman
ISBN-10: 1555976425
ISBN-13: 9781555976422
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Language: English
Published: 05/14/2013
Pages: 386
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.59lbs
Size: 9.31h x 6.45w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2013
Foreword 02/26/2013
Publishers Weekly 03/25/2013
Booklist 05/01/2013 pg. 66
Library Journal 06/01/2013 pg. 96
People Weekly 06/24/2013 pg. 51
New York Times Book Review 06/23/2013 pg. 14
New York Times Book Review 06/30/2013 pg. 26