The book is structured around a trial loosely based on a real incident. There’s a funny line when the main character returns from Oxford and his mother, disappointed with his choice of degree, says to him “All that money squandered on you at Oxford.
Sometimes he is aware, as when he states that at Oxford “I knew very well that in order to be their equal I should have to prove myself their superior.” Of course, the Sinhalese themselves screwed the lower-class Tamils even more so after independence. Most of the time he seems oblivious to his skin color and native status despite many warning signs, such as a European piano teacher who catches him handling one of her knickknacks and screams at him about his 'black hands' touching her property. He is so sold on the ideals and benefits of British colonialism that all his life he uses the phrase “We Edwardians.” He is a young Black man, a native Sinhalese, who goes to Oxford to become a lawyer. The main character is Sam (after his initials). With flawless writing, brilliantly drawn characters, and epic scope, The Hamilton Affair tells a story of love forged in revolution and tested by the bitter strife of young America, and will take its place among the greatest novels of American history ever written.The Hamilton Case is set in Sri Lanka (then the British colony of Ceylon) around the early 1900s. Together, the unlikely couple braved the dangers of war, the perils of seduction, the anguish of infidelity, and the scourge of partisanship that menaced their family and the country itself. Elizabeth was the wealthy, beautiful, adventurous daughter of the respectable Schuyler clan-and a pioneering advocate for women. Admired by George Washington, scorned by Thomas Jefferson, Hamilton was a lightning rod: the most controversial leader of the new nation.
Hamilton was a bastard and orphan, raised in the Caribbean and desperate for legitimacy, who became one of the American Revolution's most dashing-and improbable-heroes. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Revolution, and featuring a cast of legendary characters, The Hamilton Affair tells the sweeping, tumultuous, true story of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler, from passionate and tender beginnings of their romance to his fateful duel on the banks of the Hudson River. " A juicy answer to Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton." - Cosmopolitan A New York Times Bestseller and one of the best historical fiction books of 20!
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