Nineteen side-splitting stories from Sri Lanka To begin this chronicle of the funny things that have happened to him, Muller goes back to his days as a recruit in the Royal Ceylon Navy when the Queen of England came a-visiting: the saucy sailors decide to tip her a...
She will grow to plunder the senses of man and yet reject all man can offer. This prophecy of the wise men at the birth of princess Sihavathi of Vanga comes to pass when she turns seven. It is announced that she is in her flowers , and has grown to know man. At ten,...
For many centuries, Lanka was referred to as Sihaladipa the island of the Sihala, the people of the lion. This is the magnificent story of Anuradhapura, the greatest Asian Buddhist city of ancient times, and the proud capital of the lion kings of Lanka. In Children of...
‘Colombo is in the throes of an explosion. Its face changes continuously, its vices are legion, its future as yet obscure and its paths speak of sunlight as well as of shadow.…’ Carl Muller begins his quasi-fictional portrait of this beautiful, war-torn city by...
Vividly told, full of rich mythology here s a book about one of the most astounding periods of Sri Lankan history. For many centuries, Lanka was referred to as Sihaladipa the island of the Sihala, who were the people of the lion. Children of the Lion told the story of...
The heroic Sinhala king, Duttha Gamini, is aging. His son Saliya, who he hopes will succeed him, has fallen in love with an outcast chandala woman, a union that will cause much outrage in the kingdom. The Maha Thupa, the colossal structure that took eighteen years in...
Nobody - and the whole of Boteju Land agreed - could cook like Maudiegirl. She wielded a wizard's wand not only in the kitchen but also over domestic problems, however large in magnitude; from predicting the sex of an unborn child to knowing more than a dozen ways to...
Once Upon a Tender Time, a poignant tale of childhood, is the concluding part of Carl Muller's Burgher trilogy. The Burghers of Sri Lanka, hardy and fun-loving, produce children by the dozen - but often forget them. Carloboy Prins von Bloss and his companions are...
‘See here, first take a little polish on the finger and rub into the leather. Then spit...and rub...’ boasts one recruit of his boot polishing skills... sadly, the only reward this gets him is thirty pairs of shoes to shine... This is only one of the hilarious...
Winner of the Gratiean Memorial Prize for the best work in English Literature by a Sri Lankan for 1993. Hilarious, affectionate, candid and moving, this is the story of the Burghers of Sri Lanka... Who are the Burghers? Descended from the Dutch, the Portuguese, the...
Meet Fury the Magpie, Pooh the Dog, Grandpa and Grandma Ratsnake, Lizzie and Dizzy the Lizards-in-love, Spike the Porcupine and many others in these exciting stories. In these thirteen hilarious and moving stories the author writes about animals from his childhood,...
Yakada Yaka is the second part of the Burgher trilogy that began with The Jam Fruit Tree. When the conquering British roll out the first railway steam-driven locomotive in Sri Lanka, it causes quite a stir. The smoke-spewing, banshee-wailing, fearsome black thing...