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 11
... land had become the more at- tractive dowry . Besides , old Pandyan was getting anxious about his two unmarried daughters . Sahadevan would have to find a proper job , one more suited to his English education . A clerical job ...
... land had become the more at- tractive dowry . Besides , old Pandyan was getting anxious about his two unmarried daughters . Sahadevan would have to find a proper job , one more suited to his English education . A clerical job ...
Page 215
... land was all gone by then , he told Lali , and all that the old man had left Saha and him was just a tiny plot on which he kept a cow and a goat and grew a few vegetables . But he was not complaining : he had had a good life , a full ...
... land was all gone by then , he told Lali , and all that the old man had left Saha and him was just a tiny plot on which he kept a cow and a goat and grew a few vegetables . But he was not complaining : he had had a good life , a full ...
Page 334
... land , their markets , their jobs , their chil- dren's education , but they were still Tamils and would die Tamils , and that , ' they ' could not take from them - and with that she picked up the cups and plates and walked out of the ...
... land , their markets , their jobs , their chil- dren's education , but they were still Tamils and would die Tamils , and that , ' they ' could not take from them - and with that she picked up the cups and plates and walked out of the ...
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