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 115
... lived with us all the time , in a town called Kandy . I remember too , in a hazy sort of way , that the house was on ... lived in was above and to one side of the post office . In similar but smaller quarters on the other side lived the ...
... lived with us all the time , in a town called Kandy . I remember too , in a hazy sort of way , that the house was on ... lived in was above and to one side of the post office . In similar but smaller quarters on the other side lived the ...
Page 149
... lived in the poorer part of Kotahena , by the police station . It was a far cry but a short distance from Hill Street , where my grandpar- ents had lived . ( My aunts and uncles had married and moved away , all except Uncle Gnanam , and ...
... lived in the poorer part of Kotahena , by the police station . It was a far cry but a short distance from Hill Street , where my grandpar- ents had lived . ( My aunts and uncles had married and moved away , all except Uncle Gnanam , and ...
Page 237
... lived with it all the time . He even blamed himself for not having been old enough to have saved her life . And , as a boy , his one ambition had been to find the men who had killed her and avenge her death . That seemed the only way to ...
... lived with it all the time . He even blamed himself for not having been old enough to have saved her life . And , as a boy , his one ambition had been to find the men who had killed her and avenge her death . That seemed the only way to ...
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