![]() ![]() We read in one and a half pages about Ravi, standing beside a decaying Edwardian sideboard on the back veranda, the day his father dies. Ravi's opens with his family history dating back to the day when Captain Cook died in Kealakekua Bay in 1779, and "an Italian apothecary arrived in Galle on a ship registered in Rotterdam to the Dutch East India Company". She has a recurring dream of "silky blue all around her, pale blue overhead she glided through silence blotched with gold". Laura's story opens with her twin brothers deciding to drown her in a swimming pool. It has two main characters separated by time and space – Laura, born in Australia in the 1960s, and Ravi, born in Sri Lanka, first seen as a child in the 1970s. Questions of Travel is about uprootedness and travel, about tourism and flight from terror, about the trivial and the terrible. Not to have seen the trees along this road ![]()
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