The Story of a Brief Marriage

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Anuk Arudpragasam

Verlag:

Granta Books

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: 6ZYRGVL

EAN: 9781783782383

Erhältlich:

Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Di, 28.07.2026

Versand: Kostenlos

CHF 22.09

Beschreibung

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.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Anuk Arudpragasam

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Format

Buch (Softcover)

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