The Hills of a Broken Empire
In 1867, Captain Thomas Harrison arrives in the mist-covered Central Highlands of Ceylon determined to build a future from the land. What begins as a plantation venture grows into something far greater-a legacy that will bind generations of owners, workers, families, rebels, dreamers, and survivors to the same hills for more than a century.
As coffee gives way to tea and Harrison Estate rises in power, its prosperity carries a human cost. British planters and Tamil laborers inhabit the same world but experience it from opposite sides of privilege and survival. Beneath the beauty of the tea fields lie sacrifices rarely recorded in official histories.
Across 125 turbulent years, the estate witnesses labor movements, forbidden relationships, political betrayal, economic hardship, modernization, independence, social unrest, and rebellion. Generations come and go, but old injustices refuse to disappear.
At the center of this sweeping chronicle are people struggling with questions larger than themselves: Who truly owns the land? What does one generation owe the next? Can a legacy built during an empire survive after that empire falls?
From colonial Ceylon to a nation reshaping its identity, The Hills of a Broken Empire is an immersive historical saga of power, class, loyalty, love, resistance, and belonging.
Rich with plantation life, political change, family conflict, and the forgotten voices behind one of the world's most celebrated industries, Tuan B. Kamiss delivers a story in which history is not simply observed-it is lived by the people whose hands shaped the hills.
Some inherit wealth. Some inherit wounds. Everyone inherits the past.
Pre-order your copy today.
Official release: September 20.
Customer Reviews
ThriftBooks ® and the ThriftBooks ® logo are registered trademarks of Thrift Books Global, LLC
