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A Long Watch - War, Captivity and Return in Sri Lanka (Hardcover)
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A Long Watch - War, Captivity and Return in Sri Lanka (Hardcover)
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A Long Watch offers a story of human complexity amid entrenched
narratives of Sri Lanka's long civil war. Pulled from a dark ocean
after a battle at sea, Commodore Boyagoda became the
highest-ranking prisoner detained by the Tamil Tigers. For eight
years, he lived at close quarters with his declared enemy, his
imprisonment punctuated by high-level talks about his fate, but
also by extended conversations with his jailers and scratch games
of badminton played in jungle clearings. Throughout, he observed
his captors and fellow prisoners acutely, and with discreet empathy
for the lives of others undone by war.A memoir retold in Ajith
Boyagoda's temperate voice, his is an unblinking relation of
experiences difficult, moving and ironic. From going to sea, to
war, imprisonment and eventual homecoming, he accepted successive
realities as ordinary, in order to survive them.
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