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Author: Rajiva Wijesinha Publisher: NBT India ISBN: 9788123750446 Category : Languages : en Pages : 248
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A collection of short stories in English from Sri Lanka that brings together writing in all three Sri Lankan languages: Sinhala, Tamil and English.
Author: Rajiva Wijesinha Publisher: NBT India ISBN: 9788123750446 Category : Languages : en Pages : 248
Book Description
A collection of short stories in English from Sri Lanka that brings together writing in all three Sri Lankan languages: Sinhala, Tamil and English.
Author: Kannan M Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 9351188779 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 374
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The three-decade-long conflict tore apart the Tamils’ world in Sri Lanka. This anthology, framed by war, brings together poems, stories and a memoir by Tamil writers living there and in the diaspora. Wide-ranging and from recent decades, till the war’s ending, these pieces have been translated with great skill for the first time into English. Stark, and sometimes lyrical, distilling memory, history, mythology and classical literary tropes, they powerfully echo the Tamils’ sorrows and deep fears, their longings and hopes for tomorrow. Laments about youths felled by gunfire, their forced disappearances, the loss of family and homes, desecration of shrines, repeated displacements, becoming international refugees alternate with remembrance of the beauteous forests and sea, of celebrations of Tamil language and culture, and the compassion of women providing people succour. Accompanied by an introduction to set the context, this rich and moving volume reveals the spirit of a wounded island and brings its voices to a new audience.
Author: Jean Arasanayagam Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 9351180875 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 412
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Nineteen stories of rare power from the heart of war-ravaged Sri Lanka. In these stories Jean Arasanayagam brings us voices that are not normally heard: those of anonymous men and women searching for order and reason in the midst of a ruthless civil war. While many succumb to the horror of their times, there are others who discover in themselves unexpected reserves that will help them survive. Thus a young Sinhala man turns his back on an aimless upper-class existence and joins a group of Tamil refugees smuggling themselves into Germany; a woman goes out alone to see the scene of a carnage to try and find her daughter's lover among the dead and dying; a maid returns from the rich desert city of Doha to the green half-jungle of her village in northern Sri Lanka and rediscovers happiness despite the uncertain future... In addition to stories about the effects of war and violence, this collection also explores aspects of ethnicity and individual choice in a multicultural society. All is Burning is truth-telling at its poignant best.
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