# The Jam Fruit Tree

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- Authors: [Muller Carl](https://www.bookquiver.com/muller-carl)
- Language: en_IN
- Published: 2000-10-01

## Description

Winner of the Gratiean Memorial Prize for the best work in English Literature by a Sri Lankan for 1993 Hilarious, affectionate, candid and moving, this is the story of the Burghers of Sri Lanka . . . Who are the Burghers? Descended from the Dutch, the Portuguese, the British and other foreigners who arrived in the island-nation of Sri Lanka (and ‘mingled’ with the local inhabitants), the Burghers often stand out because of their curiously mixed features-grey eyes in an otherwise Dravid face, for instance. A handsome and guileless people, the Burghers have always lived it up, forever willing to ‘put a party’. Carl Muller, a Burgher himself, writes in this quasi-fictional, engaging biography of the lives of his people; they emerge, at the end of his story, as a race of fun-loving, hardy people, much like the jam fruit tree which simply refuses to be contained or destroyed.

## Editions

### The Jam Fruit Tree

- Publisher: india_penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4023-031-4
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2000-10-01
- Language: en_IN