A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Cemetry: Scenes from a Sri Lankan life

by Carl Muller

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Nineteen side-splitting stories from sri lanka to begin this chronicle of the funny things that have happened to him, muller goes back to his days as a recruit in the royal ceylon navy when the queen of england came a-visiting: the saucy sailors decide to tip her a wink! the second story takes us back to mullers childhood in anuradhapura where two visiting rat snakes turn out to be a railway linesmans grandparents there are further hilarious adventures in the navy, encounters with more snakes of different sizes and lineage, graphic descriptions of jam-making factories, and hazardous days in the gulf effortlessly, muller creates caricatures that leave you helpless with laughter as they highlight the follies and foibles of the human race.
  • ISBN10 0140382631
  • ISBN13 9780140382631
  • Publish Date 14 October 2000
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 8 June 2021
  • Publish Country IN
  • Publisher Penguin Random House India
  • Imprint Penguin
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 212
  • Language English