· by Anuk Arudpragasam ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 6, Orphaned by the Sri Lankan civil war, a young man hopes an arranged marriage might make his last days in a refugee camp more meaningful. Under constant fire, Dinesh tends to the wounded in a makeshift clinic, where amputations occur as often as bombs—and without the niceties of anesthetic or surgical tools. · It is no exaggeration to call Anuk Arudpragasam’s first novel absolutely devastating. The Story of a Brief Marriage depicts Dinesh, a sixteen-year-old Tamil man—and yes, at sixteen Dinesh is in many ways a man, forced into a premature adulthood—in a refugee camp toward the end of the Sri Lankan civil war. Though Arudpragasam’s second book is more removed from the bodily experience . · The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam review – love and war in Sri Lanka. A debut novel which raises timely questions about how we regard the suffering of others. Government troops Author: Randy Boyagoda.
Anuk Arudpragasam is a Sri Lankan Tamil novelist. He studied philosophy in the United States, receiving a doctorate at Columbia University. His first novel, The Story of a Brief Marriage, was translated into seven languages, won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Anuk Arudpragasam's The Story of a Brief Marriage is a feat of extraordinary sensitivity and imagination, a meditation on the fundamental elements of human existence—eating, sleeping, washing, touching, speaking—that give us direction and purpose, even as the world around us collapses. The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam. Reviewed By Elizabeth Stark. November 14th, Reading this book is an act of witness so intimate, I find it hard to write about. Shortly after I finished reading The Story of a Brief Marriage, I saw an article about Syrian refugees. I confess I had been flipping past it in an attempt to.
THE STORY OF A BRIEF MARRIAGE. By Anuk Arudpragasam. pp. Flatiron Books. $ War is a constant wellspring of literature, and the best of it looks not for the obvious and sensationally. by Anuk Arudpragasam ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 6, Orphaned by the Sri Lankan civil war, a young man hopes an arranged marriage might make his last days in a refugee camp more meaningful. Under constant fire, Dinesh tends to the wounded in a makeshift clinic, where amputations occur as often as bombs—and without the niceties of anesthetic or surgical tools. Anuk Arudpragasam is a Sri Lankan Tamil novelist writing in English and Tamil. His debut novel The Story of a Brief Marriage was published in by Flatiron Books/Granta Books and was subsequently translated into French, German, Czech, Mandarin, Dutch and Italian. The novel, which takes place in during the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War, won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the German Internationaler Literaturpreis. His.
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