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 119
... garden at the back , cut into a hill as high as our house , with pear trees and plums , carrots , cabbages , rhubarb and runner beans and all sorts of up - country vegetables and fruit . There was , too , the flower garden in front ...
... garden at the back , cut into a hill as high as our house , with pear trees and plums , carrots , cabbages , rhubarb and runner beans and all sorts of up - country vegetables and fruit . There was , too , the flower garden in front ...
Page 130
... garden , he its celestial gardener . Perhaps it was that peculiar quality of his , of innocence compounded with learning , that brought so many broadminded priests and enthusias- tic teachers to St Joseph's College and made it less ...
... garden , he its celestial gardener . Perhaps it was that peculiar quality of his , of innocence compounded with learning , that brought so many broadminded priests and enthusias- tic teachers to St Joseph's College and made it less ...
Page 257
... garden sir , ' Sanji continued in broken English . ' Big mess , no sir ? ' He spread out his hands over the trampled flowerbeds , inviting agreement , and then , thinking he had gone too far , murmured in Tamil , ' but only after ...
... garden sir , ' Sanji continued in broken English . ' Big mess , no sir ? ' He spread out his hands over the trampled flowerbeds , inviting agreement , and then , thinking he had gone too far , murmured in Tamil , ' but only after ...
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