In the tradition of In the Time of the Butterflies
and The Kite Runner, a tender, evocative novel about
the years leading up to the Sri Lankan civil war
On the day the Herath family moves in, Sal Mal Lane is still
a quiet street, disturbed only by the cries of the children
whose triumphs and tragedies sustain the families that live
there. As the neighbors adapt to the newcomers in different
ways, the children fill their days with cricket matches,
romantic crushes, and small rivalries. But the tremors of
civil war are mounting, and the conflict threatens to engulf
them all.
In a heartrending novel poised between the past and the
future, the innocence of the children—a beloved sister and
her overprotective siblings, a rejected son and his twin
sisters, two very different brothers—contrasts sharply with
the petty prejudices of the adults charged with their care.
In Ru Freeman’s masterful hands, On Sal Mal Lane, a
story of what was lost to a country and her people, becomes
a resounding cry for reconciliation.
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