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The story of a brief marriage / Anuk Arudpragasam.
"Very seldom in a reading life does a novel alter your sense not only of literature but of the world. This extraordinary debut is of that class." --Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You. In the last months of the Sri Lankan Civil War, Dinesh's world has contracted to an evacuee camp, where he measures his days by shells that fall like clockwork. Alienated from language, home, and family, he is brought back to life by an unexpected proposal from an old man in the camp: that he marry his daughter, Ganga. In the hours they spend together, Dinesh and Ganga attempt to awaken to one another, to reclaim their humanity. Anuk Arudpragasam's The Story of a Brief Marriage is a feat of stunning imaginative empathy, a meditation on the bare elements of human existence that give life its pulse and purpose, even in the face of atrocity"--Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9781250072405
- ISBN: 1250072409
- ISBN: 9781250075277 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 193 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Flatiron Books, 2016.
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| Subject: | Married people > Fiction. Sri Lanka > History > Civil War, 1983-2009 > Fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Nakusp Public Library | FIC ARU (Text) | 35160000731076 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Galiano Island Community Library | FIC ARU (Text) | 33127000156903 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Kitimat Public Library | Aru (Text) | 32665002067272 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Mayne Island Reading Centre | ARU (Text) | 33128000113290 | Fiction - Hardcover | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Whistler Public Library | FIC ARU (Text) | 33987001177483 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Gibsons Public Library | FIC ARUD (Text) | 30886001030366 | Adult Fiction Hardcover | Volume hold | Available | - |
