Anuk Arudpragasam
The Story of a Brief Marriage
Library Binding
(Center Point Pub July 1, 2017)
, Large Print edition
Two and a half decades into a devastating civil war, Sri Lankas Tamil minority is pushed inexorably towards the coast by the advancing army. Amongst the evacuees is Dinesh, whose world has contracted to a makeshift camp where time is measured by the shells that fall around him like clockwork. Alienated from family, home, language, and body, he exists in a state of mute acceptance, numb to the violence around him, until he is approached one morning by an old man who makes an unexpected proposal: that Dinesh marry his daughter, Ganga.
- ISBN
- 1683244346 / 9781683244349
- Pages
- 500
- Weight
- 15.2 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.8 x 0.8
in.