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A Change of Skies

By: Yasmine Gooneratne

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Yasmine Gooneratnes portrayal of the immigrant experience is as funny and poignantly ironic as Jhumpa Lahiris work on a similar topic is earnest. That is not necessarily a criticism of Lahiris work, but it demonstrates that not everything about the meeting and clashing of cultures need be deadly serious.?A Change of Skies?is the Sri Lankan-Australian academic and authors first novel. Bharat and Navaranjini Mangala-Davasinha move to Australia from Sri Lanka in the late 1960s/early 1970s, initiall...y temporarily, for Bharat to take up a lecturing position at Southern Cross University in Sydney. Friends and family warn them that Australia is a complete backwater, the ends of the earth, a cultural wasteland, and that soon they will be pining to return to the centre of civilisation, Sri Lanka. What was a five year stint becomes a permanent move. Bharat and Navaranjini even change their names to Barry and Jean Mundy, to fit in in Australia.

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