Sri Lanka conjures images of an island of incredible beauty, a tropical paradise of golden beaches, mist-shrouded mountains carpeted with tea fields – a land of apparent peace and tranquility. It also evokes a brutal, thirty-year civil war, riven with death, destruction, and racial divides.

Here is a story of a boy growing up in Sri Lanka in the midst of all that beauty and in the run-up to those bitter times. It paints a picture at once familiar and unexpected, with storytelling that is revealing, deeply personal, funny, and sometimes emotional.

This is a tale that brings back memories and nostalgia, it is a tale that you will not expect, one that will surprise and charm you.