When Memory Dies Paperback / softback
by A. Sivanandan
Paperback / softback
Description
The Buddha taught that to live is to experience suffering.
Few family sagas, especially first ones, have captured this aspect of suffering and so many other truths in as lyric a fashion as "When Memory Dies".
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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:600 pages, mass market paperback
- Publisher:Quercus Publishing
- Publication Date:01/08/2013
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- ISBN:9781905147595
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:600 pages, mass market paperback
- Publisher:Quercus Publishing
- Publication Date:01/08/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9781905147595