One Mad Bid for FreedomA Widly Hilarious Yet Ultimately Poignant Novel By Sri Lanka`S Finest Living English Language Novelist. |
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... dead so he could spring up one day and make fools of them . So they had taken every- thing to make sure he remained dead . They had lived in fear and awe of him when he was alive ; they felt they couldn't trust him to stay still after ...
... dead so he could spring up one day and make fools of them . So they had taken every- thing to make sure he remained dead . They had lived in fear and awe of him when he was alive ; they felt they couldn't trust him to stay still after ...
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... dead . They stood before the abandoned shack and stared at it . The magnitude of the loss hit them with inex- orable finality . He was never more going to be with them . That was the fact they had to accept . They had trekked the ...
... dead . They stood before the abandoned shack and stared at it . The magnitude of the loss hit them with inex- orable finality . He was never more going to be with them . That was the fact they had to accept . They had trekked the ...
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James Goonewardene. plague , the dead lying about the streets , rotting - empty arrack bottles , opened beer cans , half - eaten meal packets , piles of smelly rags , dead rats , meat bones , and what other rubbish there may be behind ...
James Goonewardene. plague , the dead lying about the streets , rotting - empty arrack bottles , opened beer cans , half - eaten meal packets , piles of smelly rags , dead rats , meat bones , and what other rubbish there may be behind ...
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asked beach become began believed bottle brain build Callay called coming common complete Conny creatures cried dead death decided Demos destroy direction discovered dropped especially excitement eyes face fact faithful feeling feet fellows felt final fish forces forms freedom friends gathered gave getting give gone hand head heard hold Hulft human ideas important inside island Kadalay Peiris kind knew known Korala Lanka later learned living looking marine mass memorial Mikhail mind moved naturalist needed never newspaper once original plans produced professor research station roar round rushing seemed shack shouting silence sitting sound stalwarts stand started stood story studied sudden suddenly talk tell things thought tion took truth trying Turab turned Van Hulft voice