A quasi-fictional portrait of Colombo that traces the city's turbulent history through centuries of colonial conquest and transformation. Beginning with the Portuguese arrival in 1505 and the subsequent Dutch incursion, Carl Muller examines how successive European powers reshaped this vital port city. The narrative captures Colombo as a place of contrasts—beautiful yet war-torn, shadowed by conflict yet illuminated by resilience, perpetually reinventing itself while bearing the marks of its complex past.
