Abstract:
During the encroachment of the ever-growing ethnic civil war in Sri Lanka, what happens
when two brothers, from a small Sri Lankan village, fall in love with a young Sri Lankan
woman, from a wealthy estate in the capital city, who is engaged as their private English
tutor but who is searching for herself and becomes romantically interested in both of
them? The Road to the Singing Lagoon is about two Sinhala Buddhist brothers, Sunil, 19,
and Vimal, 17, who both fall for Heleen, 24, their private English tutor, a westernized Sri
Lankan burgher, during the onslaught of that nation’s civil war in the early 1980s. It is
about the confluence of their interior conflicts with self and others in this environment.
