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When Memory Dies
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ISBN10: 1905147597
ISBN13: 9781905147595
Publisher: Arcadia Books
Published: Aug 30 2007
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.98
Height: 1.35 Width: 5.60 Depth: 7.68
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781905147595
Publisher: Arcadia Books
Published: Aug 30 2007
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.98
Height: 1.35 Width: 5.60 Depth: 7.68
Language: English
Haunting, with an immense tenderness . . . Unforgettable JOHN BERGER I'm recommending When Memory Dies to everyone ARTHUR C. CLARKE
Profoundly moving Evening Standard
A brilliant and moving first novel Times Literary Supplement A powerful three-generational saga of a Sri Lankan family's search for coherence and continuity in a country broken by colonial occupation and riven by ethnic wars. Through the viewpoints of three generations of a Sri Lankan family (taking the reader from 1920 through the 1980s), Sivanandan explores a culture destroyed first by colonization, then through the ethnic divisions that are released when the country achieves independence. The family, which lives at a level of poverty that makes survival a constant struggle, must also balance love for one another with a deep love of their homeland. Without bending to romanticism or proselytization, the author evokes a compelling and very human story of a lost country. It is a vision as beautifully told as it is unrelenting in its devotion to truth. In the process, the work also supplies a rich historic background to the often underreported news accounts of the massacres and upheavals in Sri Lanka. **Winner of the Sagittarius Prize **Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize**
Profoundly moving Evening Standard
A brilliant and moving first novel Times Literary Supplement A powerful three-generational saga of a Sri Lankan family's search for coherence and continuity in a country broken by colonial occupation and riven by ethnic wars. Through the viewpoints of three generations of a Sri Lankan family (taking the reader from 1920 through the 1980s), Sivanandan explores a culture destroyed first by colonization, then through the ethnic divisions that are released when the country achieves independence. The family, which lives at a level of poverty that makes survival a constant struggle, must also balance love for one another with a deep love of their homeland. Without bending to romanticism or proselytization, the author evokes a compelling and very human story of a lost country. It is a vision as beautifully told as it is unrelenting in its devotion to truth. In the process, the work also supplies a rich historic background to the often underreported news accounts of the massacres and upheavals in Sri Lanka. **Winner of the Sagittarius Prize **Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize**
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