![]() As the detail and qualification of a statement accumulates, the experience is a bit like watching Charles and Ray Eames’s film Powers of Ten (1968), a portrait of the universe that zooms out from planet Earth and then back in to a quark. Initially, at least, you find yourself waiting anxiously for a full stop and the chance to come up for air. This, his second novel, explores characters who struggle to survive in the wake or on the edges of that trauma.Īrudpragasam’s writing style – long, multiclause sentences – is overwhelming at first. (Arunpragasam is Tamil.) It ended in victory for the Sri Lankan army and the genocidal wipeout of their Tamil opponents and numerous Tamil civilians besides. ![]() ![]() Anuk Arudpragasam’s award-winning debut novel, The Story of a Brief Marriage (2016), explored characters who were in the thick of conflict, being bombed by the Sri Lankan army while eking out an existence of sorts in a Tamil refugee camp during the latter stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War (1983–2009), a conflict staged between a Buddhist Sinhalese majority in the south and a Hindu Tamil minority in the north. ![]()
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