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Assured and accomplished, Pradeep Jeganathan's long awaited debut collection of short fiction is a spare, controlled meditation on the details of inhabitation: power and inequality, friendship and enmity, love and loss, violence and its memories. The seven interconnected stories span a near thirty years of his county's recent past; each traces a delicately textured frame of troubling, telling beauty, weaving together, with almost incredible economy, not the often composed image of Sri Lanka - a paradise isle where 'only man is vile' - but a life world, live and remembered, to be lived in...

The second volume of Domains, contains: "Selvi's Revenge" by Mangalika de Silva; "Ethnic differences and urban neighbourhood relationships among slum dwellers of Colombo" by Niriellage Chandrasiri Niriella; "Towards a political economy of Sri Lanka's 'ethnic' conflict," Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah & "Broken Glass: Women, Violence and the Rule of Law," Radhika Coomaraswamy. Domains is the refereed, scholarly journal of the International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka, and is edited by senior research fellow Pradeep Jeganathan.

This now-classic work provides challenging new ways of thinking about nationalism, colonialism and modernity in Sri Lanka. Essays denaturalize the claims of the nation, taking it apart analytically, pointing to hidden relations of power and inequality that undergird it.