Nayomi Munaweera
Autore di Island of a Thousand Mirrors
Opere di Nayomi Munaweera
Opere correlate
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence (2019) — Collaboratore — 254 copie
Many Roads Through Paradise: An Anthology Of Sri Lankan Literature (translation) (2014) — Collaboratore — 7 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1973
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
Sri Lanka - Luogo di nascita
- Columbo, Sri Lanka
- Istruzione
- University of California, Irvine (BA|Lit)
University of California, Riverside (MA|South Asian Lit) - Breve biografia
- Nayomi Munaweera was born in Sri Lanka, grew up in Nigeria and settled in Southern California. She holds bachelor's degree in Literature from the University of California, Irvine and a master's degree in South Asian Literature from the University of California, Riverside
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Discussioni
island of a thousand mirrors by nayomi munaweera in Book talk (Ottobre 2015)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 2
- Opere correlate
- 3
- Utenti
- 424
- Popolarità
- #57,554
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 30
- ISBN
- 26
- Lingue
- 1
The book opens with the story of her Sinhala parents’ peaceful childhood, their arranged marriage and the birth of their two daughters. Raised in Colombo, Yasodhara and her sisters were brought up along side a Tamil family whose son, Shiva was their closest playmate. When violence erupted their family emigrated to America while Shiva’s family escaped to England. The two sisters return to Sri Lanka as adults hoping to help young victims of the war, they meet up with Shiva, now a doctor, who has also come to help his native country. But their lives were already linked with a young Tamul girl’s, Saraswathie. She lives in the war zone and although she hoped to become a teacher, she is kidnapped by Sinhala soldiers who rape and terribly abuse her. She then is given over to the Tamil Tigers and is trained to become a killer and eventually a martyr for the Tamil cause.
The author does a masterful job of describing the island with it’s vibrant colors, exotic tastes, and lively sounds making the violence and anger of the Civil War all the more jarring and shocking. Island of a Thousand Mirrors is a painful read, all the more heartbreaking when you learn that a hundred thousand lives were lost in this war.… (altro)