Anuk Arudpragasam: The Story of a Brief Marriage

The Story of a Brief Marriage


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Dinesh is a young man trapped on the frontlines between the Sri Lankan army and the Tamil Tigers. Desensitized to the horror all around him, life has been pared back to the essentials: eat, sleep, survive. All this changes when he is approached one morning by an older man who asks him to marry his daughter Ganga, hoping that victorious soldiers will be less likely to harm a married woman. For a few brief hours, Dinesh and Ganga tentatively explore their new and unexpected connection, trying to understand themselves and each other, until the war once more closes over them. Told in meditative, nuanced and powerful prose, this shattering novel marks the arrival of an extraordinary new literary voice.

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Author: Anuk Arudpragasam
Number of Pages: 208 pages
Published Date: 06 Oct 2016
Publisher: GRANTA BOOKS
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9781783782376
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