How is it that most writers from the ‘third world’ now living in the west see only the dark side of life in their homeland? Is it that they do not have any pleasant experience of their countries, or have they forgotten.
Is it only garbage and slums in the old country? What about the beaches, jungles, wild animals, waterfalls?
Is it only corruption, violence and ignorance? Would there not be even one honest human being and what about art, theater, music?
It really depends. If you like to read about beaches, waterfalls, and animals, you can go for a book about natural beauties of Sri Lanka. However, you can not expect a novel to be positive about everything about an any country.
My opinion is that a novel usually based on ups and downs, failure and success, happiness and sadness, and many more emotions of life. If your life is without any of those things, probably there is nothing to say in a story.