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Title
Wave / Sonali Deraniyagala.
Author
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780307962690 hardcover
0307962695 hardcover
9780345804310 paperback
0345804317 paperback
0307962695 hardcover
9780345804310 paperback
0345804317 paperback
Publication Details
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
Language
English
Description
227 p. ; 20 cm
Call Number
CT1528.D47 A3 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
954.9303/2092 B
Summary
On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir, she describes those first horrifying moments and her long journey since. She has written an engrossing, unsentimental, beautifully poised account: as she struggles through the first months following the tragedy, furiously clenched against a reality that she cannot face and cannot deny; and then, over the ensuing years, as she emerges reluctantly, slowly allowing her memory to take her back through the rich and joyous life she's mourning, from her family's home in London, to the birth of her children, to the year she met her English husband at Cambridge, to her childhood in Colombo; all the while learning the difficult balance between the almost unbearable reminders of her loss and the need to keep her family, somehow, still alive within her.--Publisher description.
Note
"Borzoi Books."
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