{"product_id":"when-memory-dies-a-sivanandan-9781905147595","title":"When Memory Dies","description":"\"Haunting, with an immense tenderness . . . Unforgettable\" JOHN BERGER\n\"I'm recommending When Memory Dies to everyone\" ARTHUR C. CLARKE\n\"Profoundly moving\" Evening Standard\n\"A brilliant and moving first novel\" Times Literary Supplement\nA powerful three-generational saga of a Sri Lankan family's search for coherence and continuity in a country broken by colonial occupation and riven by ethnic wars.\nThrough the viewpoints of three generations of a Sri Lankan family (taking the reader from 1920 through the 1980s), Sivanandan explores a culture destroyed first by colonization, then through the ethnic divisions that are released when the country achieves independence. \nThe family, which lives at a level of poverty that makes survival a constant struggle, must also balance love for one another with a deep love of their homeland. Without bending to romanticism or proselytization, the author evokes a compelling and very human story of a lost country. It is a vision as beautifully told as it is unrelenting in its devotion to truth. In the process, the work also supplies a rich historic background to the often underreported news accounts of the massacres and upheavals in Sri Lanka.\n**Winner of the Sagittarius Prize **Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize**","brand":"Quercus Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51836280668448,"sku":"9781905147595","price":9.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781905147595.jpg?v=1781333185","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/when-memory-dies-a-sivanandan-9781905147595","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}