Merchant's House

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. Luke A. Heslop traces the construction, habitation, and eventual decline of the family's h...