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Chargement... The Story of a Brief Marriagepar Anuk Arudpragasam
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Not surprising that a Sri Lankan author should choose to place a novel in the context of the civil war. But really that situation is as much opportunisitc as relevant. The book is a meditative one. The principal character, Dinesh, spends as much time in contemplation and meditation as much as in action. He is acutely aware of his body rather than his surroundings. It is as though the author is taking the first lesson of meditation technique as his plot. Breath in, breath out, be aware only of the breath entering your nostrils. And as you meditate inevitably the mind wanders a little and recalls events in your life or ponders problems and incidents you had forgotten. So the marriage and the war are incidental rather than the core of the writing. Four and a half stars. This was such an excellent read. It was visceral and immediate, and although it dragged in a few small places, I highly recommend it to everyone (except maybe people with PTSD). We don't know if Ganga was resigned to dying. While I fully understand why the author killed Ganga instead of Dinesh, and accept that doing so really drove home the injustice of the world, the story had primed me to expect that Dinesh would die at the end. To have that expectation subverted disturbed me and, frankly, made me angry as only a reader who feels cheated can feel. *I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review* Very well-written with a keen attention to detail. Everyday activities that many take for granted, including personal hygiene and grooming, as well as various injuries, settings, and feelings, are precisely documented. The subject of the refugee camp during a tumultuous time in Sri Lanka is heavy material, but the author never lets the book get too depressing. There were a few times towards the end of the book where my flow in the reading was disrupted due to extremely long sentences that I had to read and reread a few times, but other than that, I really enjoyed this book. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"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"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Behind the photos of refugees that we see in the news there are people trying to live lives. To do normal things. Big things like marrying. Small things like having a meal together.
The grief is beyond tears.
Read this book! I mean, LISTEN! ( )