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The Story of a Brief Marriage - A Novel

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Evocative tale of love amidst Sri Lankan turmoil.

"The Story of a Brief Marriage" offers a poignant exploration of humanity when it's most fragile. In your hands, you'll find more than a narrative; you'll discover a visceral experience, striking deep emotional chords. Imagine the blend of tense, war-torn reality with tender moments of connection—a narrative that not only narrates but makes you feel the weight of existence and the fleeting beauty of companionship in chaos.

  • Dylan Thomas Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2017)
  • DSC Prize (2017)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Story of a Brief Marriage - A Novel

Regular price RM44.57 MYR
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ISBN: 9781250072405
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Date of Publication: 2016-09-06
Format: Hardcover
Related Topics: Literature, War, Asian Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.81
(rated by 2926 readers)

Description

Two and a half decades into a devastating civil war, Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority is pushed inexorably towards the coast by the advancing army. Amongst the evacuees is Dinesh, whose world has contracted to a makeshift camp where time is measured by the shells that fall around him like clockwork. Alienated from family, home, language, and body, he exists in a state of mute acceptance, numb to the violence around him, till he is approached one morning by an old man who makes an unexpected proposal: that Dinesh marry his daughter, Ganga. Marriage, in this world, is an attempt at safety, like the beached fishing boat under which Dinesh huddles during the bombings. As a couple, they would be less likely to be conscripted to fight for the rebels, and less likely to be abused in the case of an army victory. Thrust into this situation of strange intimacy and dependence, Dinesh and Ganga try to come to terms with everything that has happened, hesitantly attempting to awaken to themselves and to one another before the war closes over them once more. Anuk Arudpragasam’s The Story of a Brief Marriage is a feat of extraordinary sensitivity and imagination, a meditation on the fundamental elements of human existence—eating, sleeping, washing, touching, speaking—that give us direction and purpose, even as the
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Evocative tale of love amidst Sri Lankan turmoil.

"The Story of a Brief Marriage" offers a poignant exploration of humanity when it's most fragile. In your hands, you'll find more than a narrative; you'll discover a visceral experience, striking deep emotional chords. Imagine the blend of tense, war-torn reality with tender moments of connection—a narrative that not only narrates but makes you feel the weight of existence and the fleeting beauty of companionship in chaos.

  • Dylan Thomas Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2017)
  • DSC Prize (2017)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.