A merchant family home reveals postwar middle-class life, kinship, and ambition in small-town Sri LankaA Merchant's House follows a Sinhala-Buddhist merchant family in small-town Sri Lanka over two decades, revealing how homes, relationships, and everyday routines shape lives, ambitions, and social standing.
From the picket lines of the Miners' Strike to the Amazon warehouses of today, the British working class has been pushed from the center of political life to its margins, though not without a fight.