Paradise Island Mystery And Anton Chekhov | | Emily's News Blog

The larger world has named a place of historical pilgrimage in the island â€" Adam's Peak. Chekhov's compatriot Sergei Bunin had visited and written about Ceylon. Bunin had become the first Russian to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature . ... I could go to the Grand Oriental Hotel to search for clues. The location of hotel, which had been bought by a state bank in the 1950s, was quite familiar. At the bank, my father was picked to supervise reconstruction of the hotel ...