![]() ![]() But her enigmatic presence depicted in Buddhist literature later on has long fascinated writers. Even less was said about his wife, Yasodhara, in those early texts. The earliest Buddhist text, the Pali Canon, says very little about the life of Siddhartha prior to his spiritual journey. This is particularly true of the figures Selvadurai wanted to be front-and-centre in the novel. While there is no shortage of academic studies to be found regarding ancient India in the 6th century B.C., there are significant gaps. ![]() His 1999 follow-up, Cinnamon Gardens, was set in the 1920s in the former British colony of Ceylon.īut the author admits he had never previously attempted anything that required the sort of deep-dive research he undertook for Mansions of the Moon. His 1994 Giller-shortlisted debut, Funny Boy, was a coming-of-age tale about a Tamil boy set against the backdrop of the Sinhala-Tamil conflicts in Colombo that led to the 1983 riots. It’s not that he hasn’t written period pieces before. The topic of research is an obvious one for Selvadurai when discussing this novel. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. ![]()
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