Tuesday, March 19, 2013

CARAPACE Romesh Gunesekera


ANURA PERERA IS coming over tonight.
Amma - my mother - says I ought to take him
seriously. I told Vijay about it.
 So?
 He's coming to see me because he is
interested in me and he has serious
intentions. He lives in Australia!
 Vijay grinned and said nothing. That's the
way with Vijay.
 Do you know who Anura Perera is?
 He shook his head, no. Then he laughed,
So he's looking for a Lankan wife?
 Yes! I said. Anura Perera has a dollar job, a
Sydney house, and an Australian ticket.
So what are you saying? Vijay laughed.
You are going to marry this prick with a
foreign job? Is that what you've come to tell
me?