• The best books on Sri Lanka - The Sri Lanka Reader: History, Culture, Politics by John Clifford Holt
  • The best books on Sri Lanka - An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon by Robert Knox
  • The best books on Sri Lanka - The Road to Peradeniya: An Autobiography by Ivor Jennings
  • The best books on Sri Lanka - When Memory Dies by A. Sivanandan
  • The best books on Sri Lanka - Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje

The best books on Sri Lanka, recommended by Razeen Sally

Many visitors to Sri Lanka have been beguiled by its charms, from its hill towns to its beaches, its ancient temples to its friendly people. And yet, for a quarter of a century until 2009, it was torn apart by a brutal civil war. Here, Sri Lanka-born political economist Razeen Sally, author of Return to Sri Lanka: Travels in a Paradoxical Land, recommends the best books to get a better understanding of Sri Lanka and the complexities that make the country so fascinating to visit and read about.