Overview of Yakada Yaka Book

Yakada Yaka is the second part of the Burgher trilogy that began with The Jam Fruit Tree. When the conquering British roll out the first railway steam-driven locomotive in Sri Lanka, it causes quite a stir. The smoke-spewing, banshee-wailing, fearsome black thing hisses like a thousand cobras and the villagers declare that this Thing is an Iron Demon a yakada yaka. The Burghers who drive these Iron Demons have a penchant for challenging authority and courting trouble, sometimes just to liven things up in the railway outposts and so it is that Sonnaboy and Meerwald chase a large group of villagers all across Anuradhapura, mother-naked but not much bothered by it, Ben Godlieb conjures up a corpse in his cowcatcher, Dickie Byrd single-handedly demolishes a Pentecostal Mission and is hailed as the messiah of the Railway fraternity, and Basil Van der Smaght filches a human heart and feeds it to the Nawalapitiya railway staff and to cap it all, Sonnaboy takes French Leave to act in The Bridge on the River Kwai '(Muller) tells his tale with a gentle humor often bordering on tenderness, but couched in the vigorous rugged locales. Almost immediately we find ourselves empathizing with Muller's roistering band that sin and prays with equal zest.' Business Standard The Burghers believed in living life to the hilt. Every situation occasioned wild revels, and there was nothing that could not be solved through a brawl.' India Today

• Book Type :

Contemporary Fiction

• Book Binding :

Paperback

• Language :

English

• Number of Pages :

240 pages

• ISBN - 10 :

0140240640

• Yakada Yaka Published On :

14 Oct 2000

• Resource:

Literature & Fiction, Contemporary Fiction Books for Students, Teachers, Graudates, Professionals and all others

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