Island of 1000 mirrors5/18/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Selections Boxid IA1940714 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Includes excerpt from the author's second novel, What lies between us (pages 257-278)Īccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:16:30 Associated-names Container of (work): Munaweera, Nayomi. ![]() "First published in Sri Lanka in 2012 by Perera Hussein Publishing House"-Title page verso At its root, it's a story of a fragmented nation struggling to find its way to a new beginning". Narrated by the eldest daughter of each family, the story explores how each woman negotiates war, migration, love, exile, and belonging. "Follows the fate of two families, one Tamil, one Sinhala as they straddle opposite sides of the long and brutal Sri Lankan civil war. But the lives of Yasodhara and Saraswathie are already intertwined ![]() When the war shatters their peace, Yasodhara's family escapes to Los Angeles. As a child in idyllic Colombo, Yasodhara's and her siblings' lives are shaped by social hierarchies, their parents' ambitions, teenage love and, subtly, the differences between Tamil and Sinhala people. Saraswathie is living in the active war zone of Sri Lanka, and hopes to become a teacher, but her dreams for the future are abruptly stamped out when she is arrested by a group of Sinhala soldiers and pulled into the very heart of the conflict that she has tried so hard to avoid. ![]()
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