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
... leave with Uncle Navam , who had been visiting with us . My father packed my bag , while my mother and Bisso , the cook , made up food parcels for the journey . Ga- nesh offered me his treasured wooden top and Ram a last clammy piece of ...
... leave with Uncle Navam , who had been visiting with us . My father packed my bag , while my mother and Bisso , the cook , made up food parcels for the journey . Ga- nesh offered me his treasured wooden top and Ram a last clammy piece of ...
Page 242
... leaving her as quickly as it had come . ' The boy must study , and stand on his own two feet . We have nothing to leave him . ' Her husband agreed , cheering up . The farm indeed was not worth speaking of , and she was right ; the boy ...
... leaving her as quickly as it had come . ' The boy must study , and stand on his own two feet . We have nothing to leave him . ' Her husband agreed , cheering up . The farm indeed was not worth speaking of , and she was right ; the boy ...
Page 375
... leave everything in the older man's hands and left his office in a happier frame of mind : the responsibility to his grandparents was over . He would go and see Raman on the way home and tell him that , tell him that he too was leaving ...
... leave everything in the older man's hands and left his office in a happier frame of mind : the responsibility to his grandparents was over . He would go and see Raman on the way home and tell him that , tell him that he too was leaving ...
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