Romesh Gunesekera 
Sandglass [EPUB ebook] 

Set in London, The Sandglass tells the story of two feuding families whose lives are interlinked by the changing fortunes of postcolonial Sri Lanka. After his mother s death, Prins Ducal is driven to re-examine his family s history. In doing so, he discovers questionable circumstances surrounding another death in his family his father s and sets about unravelling the secrets shrouding it. In this beautifully constructed novel, Romesh Gunesekera expertly weaves together the fabric of 1990s London and post-war Sri Lanka, moving seamlessly between past and present.