Romesh Gunesekera - In London, I discovered a ...

In London, I discovered a peculiar building by Holland Park where the globe was shrunk to fit a British perspective, but which had a library with Sri Lankan books I had never seen before.

Romesh Gunesekera

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Born: 1954

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Library, Perspective, Seen, Building, Before, Books, London, Park, Never, Had, Globe, Discovered, Fit, Where, Which, Holland, Shrunk, British, Peculiar

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