Questions of Travel

"Laura Fraser grows up in Sydney, motherless, with a cold father and an artistic bent. Ravi Mendes is on the other side of the world--his humble father dead, his mother struggling, determined to succeed in computer science. Their stories alternate throughout-- culminating in unlikely fates for them both, destinies influenced by travel--voluntary in her case, enforced in his. With money from an inheritance, Laura sets off to see the world, returning to Sydney to work for a travel guide. There she meets Ravi, a Sri Lankan political exile who wants only to see a bit of Australia and make a living" -- from dust jacket.

Set in

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  Sydney · Australia

  Laura grows up in Sydney and returns here to work at a travel publisher; Ravi settles here as a Sri Lankan exile
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• Sri Lanka · Sri Lanka

  Ravi's homeland; devastating events force him to flee as a political refugee