Книга: When Memory Dies (Sivanandan A.); Arcadia Book, 2013

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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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	9781905147595
Автор(ы)	Sivanandan A.
Вес	0.33
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2013
Жанр	проза на иностранном языке
Издатель	Arcadia Book
Издательство	Arcadia Book
Кол-во страниц	411
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	411
Обложка	мягкая обложка
Тип обложки	мягкая