ameena hussein author sri lanka

Blue: Stories for Adults

Perera Hussein Publishing House, Colombo, Sri Lanka 2010
ISBN: 978-955-8897-20-1

Edited by Ameena Hussein, Sri Lanka’s first collection of stories for adults. Sixteen scorching stories by various writers evoke a world of heady sensuality and offer a veritable smorgasboard of spicy fantasies. The book offers a lot of naughtiness, gorgeous photographs and a fresh focus on Sri Lankan fiction. This is a collection to break the hum and drone of everyday life.

Links

http://sundaytimes.lk/110116/Plus/plus_08.html

Perera Hussein Publishing House, Colombo, Sri Lanka 2009
ISBN: 978-955-8897-17-1

Long-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize, The Moon in the Water is a story of a young woman’s search for family. An unexpectedly revealed secret threatens to destroy her very identity, family bonds and unravels complicated threads of love. Khadeeja Rasheed has the perfect life in far away Geneva. A loving family, a fulfilling career and an adoring boyfriend. When her father is accidentally killed in a bomb blast, she returns home to Sri Lanka.

There she discovers a secret that threatens to destroy family ties. The Moon in the Water brings a young woman's search for recognition and family vividly to life. In this story of deep desires, identity and passion, Ameena Hussein draws a dramatic portrait of loss, bewildering love and possible forgiveness.

Excerpt from The Moon in the Water

http://iwp.uiowa.edu/91st/vol6_n2/hussein.html

Links

http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=155785

http://phbooks.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/ameena-husseinss-the-moon-in-the-water-reviewed-by-jill-mcdonald/

http://www.dailynews.lk/2009/02/12/fea20.asp

http://www.thesundayleader.lk/20090524/lifestyle.HTM

http://sundaytimes.lk/090111/Magazine/sundaytimesplus_01.html

http://www.news-releases.uiowa.edu/2009/march/032509At-a-glance.html

Popsicle Books, an imprint of Perera Hussein Publishing House, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2008

ISBN: 978-955-8897-16-4

A collection of stories for children, edited by Ameena Hussein. Journey to a strange village and learn the secret of their hats or travel in time to a town in Sri Lanka with a genii.
Read about the dilemma of a cat that is forbidden to kill or dream about building an aeroplane that will fly over golden paddy fields. In this collection MilkRice enthusiastically presents nine stories for children from new and established Sri Lankan writers.

Links

http://srilankanbooks.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html

http://sundaytimes.lk/080831/Plus/sundaytimesplus_10.html

Perera Hussein Publishing House, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2003

ISBN: 955-8898-00-0

In this award winning collection of short stories, Ameena Hussein writes of love, death, fantasy, identity crises, changing worlds and freedom – creatively using language to shape raw life into evocative fiction. Hussein’s short stories address and revolve around the question of identity within an essentially Sri Lankan context. While most of this volume reflects aspects of Sri Lanka’s ethnic and socio-economic struggles, these stories are not merely ‘about’ Sri Lanka.

Links

http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/index.php?artwork=852

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lkawgw/ahussein.htm