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Sivanandan, A. When Memory Dies
Arcadia Books 1997 1-900850-01-X / 9781900850018 Paperback Very Good
The Buddha taught that to live is to experience suffering. Few family sagas , especially first ones, have captured this aspect of suffering and so many other truths in as lyric a fashion as When Memory Dies. Through the viewpo ints of three generations of a Sri Lankan family (taking the reader from 19 20 through the 1980s), Sivanandan explores a culture destroyed first by col onization, then through the ethnic divisions that are released when the cou ntry achieves independence. The family, which lives at a level of poverty t hat makes survival a constant struggle, must also balance love for one anot her with a deep love of their homeland. Without bending to romanticism or p roselytization, the author evokes a compelling and very human story of a lo st country. It is a vision as beautifully told as it is unrelenting in its devotion to truth. In the process, the work also supplies a rich historic b ackground to the often underreported news accounts of the massacres and uph eavals in Sri Lanka.
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500.00 JPY
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