The Present Is a Foreign Country

SOURCE: The New York Times, February 23, 2003 HEAVEN’S EDGEBy Romesh Gunesekera.234 pp. New York:Grove Press. $24.   THE nation-state is a creation of empire, but for a generation of postimperial subjects the legacy of colonialism has been one of homelessness and exile. Romesh Gunesekera was born in Sri Lanka in 1954, six years after independence. He […]