The Story of a Brief Marriage
by Anuk Arudpragasam
Two and a half decades into a devastating civil war, Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority is pushed inexorably toward the coast by the advancing army. Among 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.
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Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Publication Date: 2016
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781250072405
by Anuk Arudpragasam
Two and a half decades into a devastating civil war, Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority is pushed inexorably toward the coast by the advancing army. Among 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.
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Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Publication Date: 2016
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781250072405
by Anuk Arudpragasam
Two and a half decades into a devastating civil war, Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority is pushed inexorably toward the coast by the advancing army. Among 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.
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Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Publication Date: 2016
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781250072405