Anuk Arudpragasam

The Story of a Brief Marriage

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Dinesh is a young man trapped on the frontlines between the Sri Lankan army and the Tamil Tigers. Desensitized to the horror all around him, life has been pared back to the essentials: eat, sleep, survive. All this changes when he is approached one morning by an older man who asks him to marry his daughter Ganga, hoping that victorious soldiers will be less likely to harm a married woman. For a few brief hours, Dinesh and Ganga tentatively explore their new and unexpected connection, trying to understand themselves and each other, until the war once more closes over them. Told in meditative, nuanced and powerful prose, this shattering novel m… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78378-238-3
EAN: 9781783782383
Produktnummer: 22281403
Verlag: Granta Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 208 S.
Masse: H19.7 cm x B12.8 cm x D1.7 cm 145 g
Gewicht: 145

Über den Autor

Anuk Arudpragasam is from Colombo, Sri Lanka and is currently working towards a doctorate in philosophy at Columbia University. He writes in English and Tamil. This is his first novel.