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"Brave...Brilliant...This is a book that makes one kneel before the elegance of the human spirit and the yearning that is at the essence of every life." — The New York Times Book Review "An exceptional debut...Beautiful and penetrating and truthful: a small work of art whittled from atrocity." — The Wall Street Journal "Devastating ...An act of sustained empathy." — The New Yorker Two and a half decades into a devastating civil war, Sri Lanka's 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, till he is approached one morning by an old man who makes an unexpected proposal: that...
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- Author
- Anuk Arudpragasam
- Publisher
- Flatiron Books
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781250074751
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (502 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14