β Scribed by Anuk Arudpragasam
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize
"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
"One of the best books I have read in years."****-- Colm Toibin
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 Dinesh marry his daughter, Ganga. Marriage, in this world, is an attempt at safety, like the beached fishing boat under...
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
**"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 f
Lillian Anderson is a strong-minded, backwoods-Minnesota girl, well-versed in the basics of survival. She can find air to breathe under a capsized boat, drive in a blizzard, or capture a wild duck. As part of a large struggling family, she tiptoes around her explosive father whose best days always c
**Winner, Ned Kelly Awards, Best True Crime, 2015 A _Times Literary Supplement_ Book of the Year, 2014** On the evening of 4 September 2005, Fatherβs Day, Robert Farquharson, a separated husband, was driving his three sons home to their mother, Cindy, when his car left the road and plunged into a
**Winner, Ned Kelly Awards, Best True Crime, 2015 A _Times Literary Supplement_ Book of the Year, 2014** On the evening of 4 September 2005, Fatherβs Day, Robert Farquharson, a separated husband, was driving his three sons home to their mother, Cindy, when his car left the road and plunged into a