![]() 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. Marriage, in this world, is an attempt at safety, like the beached fishing boat under which Dinesh huddles during the bombings. 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. ![]() ![]() 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. Colm Toibin 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. Winner of the 2017 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature " is a book that makes one kneel before the elegance of the human spirit and the yearning that is at the essence of every life." - The New York Times Book Review One of the best books I have read in years. ![]()
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