Wave - A Memoir of Life After the Tsunami (Paperback, New)

Winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize 2014 The book opens and we are inside the wave: thirty feet high, moving at twenty-five mph, racing two miles inland. And from there into the depths of the author's despair: how to live now that her life has been undone? Sonali Deraniyagala tells her story - the loss of her two boys, her husband, and her parents - without artifice or sentimentality. In the stark language of unfathomable sorrow, anger, and guilt: she struggles through the first months following the tragedy -- someone always at her side to prevent her from harming herself, her whole being furiously clenched against the reality she can't face; and then reluctantly emerging and, over the ensuing years, slowly allowing her memory to function again. Then she goes back through the rich and joyous life she's mourning, from her family's home in London, to the birth of her children, to the year she met her English husband at Cambridge, to her childhood in Colombo while learning the balance between the almost unbearable reminders of her loss and her fundamental need to keep her family, somehow, still with her.

General

Imprint:	Virago Press Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2013
First published:	March 2013
Authors:	Sonali Deraniyagala
Dimensions:	215 x 135 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	213
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-84408-907-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental impact of natural disasters & phenomena Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945 Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	1-84408-907-X
Barcode:	9781844089079

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