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 144
... things that kept the village so vividly in my consciousness . It was with us in everyday , material things too : in the clothes we could not afford and the food we had to husband and in the one quarrel between my parents that recurred ...
... things that kept the village so vividly in my consciousness . It was with us in everyday , material things too : in the clothes we could not afford and the food we had to husband and in the one quarrel between my parents that recurred ...
Page 225
... things . ' ' What things , Mr Chelliah ? ' Lali asked . " These things , ' Mr Chelliah repeated . " These communal things . You can never say with Sinhalese people , whether they are GAs or SPs or postmasters or anything ... whether ...
... things . ' ' What things , Mr Chelliah ? ' Lali asked . " These things , ' Mr Chelliah repeated . " These communal things . You can never say with Sinhalese people , whether they are GAs or SPs or postmasters or anything ... whether ...
Page 271
... things like that , and give me books . I don't think she is going to be a nun for long . ' Vijay stopped in his ... things . That may have been how things had developed in Russia or China , but in a country like Sri Lanka , which had ...
... things like that , and give me books . I don't think she is going to be a nun for long . ' Vijay stopped in his ... things . That may have been how things had developed in Russia or China , but in a country like Sri Lanka , which had ...
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