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Indlæser... The Story of a Brief Marriage (udgave 2016)af Anuk Arudpragasam (Forfatter)
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   Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog.  kjuliff | Jan 17, 2023 |    ) Steve38 | Aug 8, 2021 | 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.  ) whatsmacksaid | Jan 25, 2021 | ) redwritinghood38 | Nov 6, 2018 | 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. ( ) JaxlynLeigh | Jul 20, 2018 | ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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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"-- No library descriptions found. |
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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! (