A dramatic tale of self-actualization in the face of a nightmarish change of history, The Everlasting Field is a young artist's haunting chronicle of his family and his fate. As nationalism and socialism vie for power to supplant British rule on the island of Sri Lanka, chaos grips Elephant Rock, a peaceful, historic, upcountry village nestled in the salubrious landscape of tea estates and rice terraces. Besieged by a torrent of newly wrought upheavals, the protagonist tells the spellbinding tale of his marriage to his cousin, and the heartbreaking story of the love triangle that forms between the newlyweds and his unmarried sister, who is caught up in a quest to find the right man to marry. The Everlasting Field is a fable of the redemptive power of art as the metaphysical core of our existence.