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A hint of anarchy everywhere

John Gimlett’s travel memoir Elephant Complex celebrates the enigmatic island of palm-fringed beaches and suicide bombs

  • Elephant Complex: Travels in Sri Lanka

    John Gimlette

    Quercus, pp. 517

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