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When Memory Dies

A Sivanandan
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"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**

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Nombre de pages :
416
Langue:
Anglais

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EAN:
9781905147595
Date de parution :
30-08-07
Format:
Livre broché
Format numérique:
Trade paperback (VS)
Dimensions :
142 mm x 195 mm
Poids :
444 g

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