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 9
... palmyrah tree ( the story was that he drank the toddy even as he tapped the tree , a job which he should have left to the low - castes anyway ) . Two daughters , the twins , remained unmarried . Even the mud house in which my ...
... palmyrah tree ( the story was that he drank the toddy even as he tapped the tree , a job which he should have left to the low - castes anyway ) . Two daughters , the twins , remained unmarried . Even the mud house in which my ...
Page 44
... palmyrah trees , and he was hard pressed to follow her . When he emerged from the wood , she was gone , but before him lay the mud- houses of the nalava settlement . He could go no further . He turned back home . The following day , he ...
... palmyrah trees , and he was hard pressed to follow her . When he emerged from the wood , she was gone , but before him lay the mud- houses of the nalava settlement . He could go no further . He turned back home . The following day , he ...
Page 141
... palmyrah flour out of which the ' soup ' was made and the hundred and one other things that went into it like sprats and prawns and shrimps and fish - heads , billing , jak seed and coconut , long beans , and butter beans , bandakka and ...
... palmyrah flour out of which the ' soup ' was made and the hundred and one other things that went into it like sprats and prawns and shrimps and fish - heads , billing , jak seed and coconut , long beans , and butter beans , bandakka and ...
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