Beddagama is a handful of mud huts in the low country of Ceylon, held back from the jungle only by yearly clearing with axe and katty. Silindu, a hunter half-wild himself, and his twin daughters live there at the mercy of drought, debt, the village headman and the moneylender, and of officials who barely understand them.
Drawn from Woolf’s years as a colonial officer, it is one of the most sympathetic English novels of village life under empire. Download the free EPUB.