When Memory DiesA powerful three-generational saga of a Sri Lankan family's search for coherence and continuity in a country broken by colonial occupation and riven by ethnic wars. Winner of the Sagittarius Prize. Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize |
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Page 199
... Sinhalese with its brilli- ant irrigation works , its temples and palaces and parks and gardens , had fallen prey to dynastic wars and foreign invasions . It had flowered again briefly in the reign of Parakrama , builder of tanks and ...
... Sinhalese with its brilli- ant irrigation works , its temples and palaces and parks and gardens , had fallen prey to dynastic wars and foreign invasions . It had flowered again briefly in the reign of Parakrama , builder of tanks and ...
Page 206
... Sinhala is spoken only in Ceylon that Ceylon must preserve Sinhala . ' Visvappa's mouth fell open . ' And it is people like you , ' my father went on relent- lessly , ' so - called learned people - oh , they are among the Sinhalese too ...
... Sinhala is spoken only in Ceylon that Ceylon must preserve Sinhala . ' Visvappa's mouth fell open . ' And it is people like you , ' my father went on relent- lessly , ' so - called learned people - oh , they are among the Sinhalese too ...
Page 223
... Sinhalese most of them . And yet it was these same people who were encamped outside the PM's residence , shouting ' Death to the Tamils ' . This Tamil was already dead , she who spoke Sinhala better than they , knew how to go down on ...
... Sinhalese most of them . And yet it was these same people who were encamped outside the PM's residence , shouting ' Death to the Tamils ' . This Tamil was already dead , she who spoke Sinhala better than they , knew how to go down on ...
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