Good Little Ceylonese Girl : Penguin : 9780143440147 : 01 Apr 2017 : Our Sri Lankan narrator visits his friend Joe in Italy where Joe attends a special course-in higher (or shall we say lower) studies in women. Italians-much like Sri Lankans-live at home through marriage death and sometimes even beyond the pale. An accompanying string of fake fiancés and phoney engagements are the backdrop to this delightful collection of darkly humorous tales about Sri Lankans at home and abroad. Long years and many miles away Colombo's Father Cruz attempts to rescue a church from parishioners who like to put their donations where others can see them-on large plaques on the coast a retired Admiral escapes the tsunami on an antique Dutch cabinet two childhood sweethearts in time-honoured Sri Lankan tradition are married off to strangers. Ashok Ferrey wrIt's about Sri Lanka and its people wherever they roam with remarkable acuity. He wrIt's of the West's effect on Sri Lankans of its 'turning them into c