ASHOK FERREY PENGUIN BOOKS PAGES: 241; PRICE: RS. 299 The title story, set against the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 describes Veena Patels all- too- brief encounter with forbidden love. 'But Did I Tell You I Can't Dance?'is a hilarious fable about old age, its occasional humiliations and its many heartwarming victories. And in 'Maleeshya'Ashok himself makes a cameo appearance as a dead author who has embarrassingly come back to life. Love in the Tsunami brings together a selection of Ashok Ferreys short fiction with four brand new stories. Enormously wide- ranging and endlessly inventive, Ashoks pen is rib- ticklingly funny and, occasionally, scathingly acerbic. He accurately portrays Sri Lanka in all its diversity.