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 15
... Anyway there's no hurry to discuss these matters now . Finish your toddy . Then we'll go and eat . ' The menfolk were already seated cross - legged on the floor of the kitchen with their plantain leaves before them , waiting to be ...
... Anyway there's no hurry to discuss these matters now . Finish your toddy . Then we'll go and eat . ' The menfolk were already seated cross - legged on the floor of the kitchen with their plantain leaves before them , waiting to be ...
Page 67
... anyway . I too have the same , the same ... conflict . ' He paused , trying to give the correct words to his thoughts . ' I don't know what my first duty is , to my own folk or to other people , poor people , like us . I know they are ...
... anyway . I too have the same , the same ... conflict . ' He paused , trying to give the correct words to his thoughts . ' I don't know what my first duty is , to my own folk or to other people , poor people , like us . I know they are ...
Page 211
... anyway , ' observed Lali . ' People are much nicer there . ' And when I looked questioningly at her , she ex- plained that she had spent a few days in Jaffna town some time ago . Her cousin Vinitha was senior matron at the general ...
... anyway , ' observed Lali . ' People are much nicer there . ' And when I looked questioningly at her , she ex- plained that she had spent a few days in Jaffna town some time ago . Her cousin Vinitha was senior matron at the general ...
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