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 136
... Uncle Para would lay into him with a hopeless passion of love and despair . Soon , though , Kantha was to fail his ... Gnanam's visits to look forward to . He was the only one of my mother's relatives that Uncle Para got on with , the ...
... Uncle Para would lay into him with a hopeless passion of love and despair . Soon , though , Kantha was to fail his ... Gnanam's visits to look forward to . He was the only one of my mother's relatives that Uncle Para got on with , the ...
Page 169
... Uncle Gnanam . The first broadside had already been fired and , on the evening before the day of the hartal , it broke into open warfare . I was just returning home from college when I ran into the tail - end of the battle , and ...
... Uncle Gnanam . The first broadside had already been fired and , on the evening before the day of the hartal , it broke into open warfare . I was just returning home from college when I ran into the tail - end of the battle , and ...
Page 170
... uncle's shoulder . ' I am sorry , thambi , I did not mean that . Forgive me , ' he said . ' No , it was my fault , ' replied Uncle Gnanam , more astonished than hurt . ' I had no right to talk to you like that . ' I had leapt to my feet ...
... uncle's shoulder . ' I am sorry , thambi , I did not mean that . Forgive me , ' he said . ' No , it was my fault , ' replied Uncle Gnanam , more astonished than hurt . ' I had no right to talk to you like that . ' I had leapt to my feet ...
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