Red Coral

About the Book

This drama takes place in three different countries: Tibet, India and England. Ashley Manchester, a middle-aged English nobleman, goes to Tibet to visit an old friend and to write a book. He falls helplessly in love with a fifteen-year-old Tibettan girl. They are refused permission to marry so decided to escape to England. In a state of realizing how difficult it would be, Ashley and Devi plan for their escape, meeting with hindrance and obstruction.

About the Author

Miss Haflidason is 100 percent Icelandic. The author is a daughter of a late sea captain, Sigurdur Rósenkar Haflidason of Reykjavik, Iceland. The author arrives from a long line of Icelandic writers in her family and began composing poetry on her native language when still a child. Iceland has more writers, more bookstores, and publish more books than any country in the world—per capita. Icelandic writer Haldor Laxness is a Nobel Prize winner for his novel Independent People. During Miss Haflidason’s visit in Iceland, her cousin, Όlöflavia Arnadóttir, a renowned poet, and she payed Haldor Laxness a short stay at his small modest home by the sea. He was not at home. The door was unlocked. They went in. Icelanders never lock their doors.