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Sto caricando le informazioni... Wave (2013)di Sonali Deraniyagala
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Sonya Deraniyagala endured the unthinkable for a wife, mother, and daughter. She saw her loved ones disappear, literally, before her eyes, in the 2004 Indonesian Tsunami. To have turned that experience into an enduring work of inspiration is one thing. To have turned it into an enduring work of art is quite another. I won't spoil for the reader how she survives the grief. You'll have to read the book to find that out. But I can say that her powers of description of the life she knew in England and holidays in Sri Lanka are outstanding prose. The only comparable contemporary work I can think of is I Shall Not Hate by Izzeldin Abuelaish, who lost his daughters and a neice in an attack by an Israeli tank during the Gaza War. I was particularly pleased to read in the ackowledgements the support the author received from one her more famous countrymen, author Michael Ondaatje, and his wife Linda Spalding, two longtime aquaintances of mine and really nice people. I also think of the great contribution Doubleday editor Anne Collins made to Shake Hands With the Devil by Romeo Dallaire. Great works of artists sometimes need a little help from their friends. ( ) Gave up reading half way. I was expecting a story primarily about the Tsunami of 2004. Instead, the tsunami was addressed in the first few chapters of the book and the rest is a memoir about grief and depression. Another reviewer mentioned that this book could have been about the aftermath of a car accident as well and I agree. I got bored and frustrated as the author clearly needed help and was not getting it. Definitely not what I thought it was going to be like, but pretty good still. It dealt with the aftermath of the tsunami and the gut wrenching process which would follow if you lost your parents and entire immediate family, including children. You can tell how much she is pain and then you can even feel her getting better, with new obstacles now. The comments about the book on the back and front made it seem it was one of the best books of the year. I don't know about that but its worth reading for sure. Definitely not what I thought it was going to be like, but pretty good still. It dealt with the aftermath of the tsunami and the gut wrenching process which would follow if you lost your parents and entire immediate family, including children. You can tell how much she is pain and then you can even feel her getting better, with new obstacles now. The comments about the book on the back and front made it seem it was one of the best books of the year. I don't know about that but its worth reading for sure.
This is possibly the most moving book I have ever read about grief, but it is also a very, very fine book about love. For grief is the black hole that is left in our lives when we lose someone irreplaceable – a child, a parent, a lover. It is the negative image that, in its blackness, sometimes reveals love with a greater clarity than its positive counterpart. And while in Wave love reveals itself by the bleak intensity of the pain of absolute, irreplaceable loss, it is in the end a love story, and a book about the importance of love. It is a nightmarish tale of what happened that desperate day and the desolation and rage that followed. At times, Deraniyagala’s honesty shocks. The word “brave” is used a lot to describe those who write about their deepest traumas — too often, I think — but it’s an apt description of Deraniyagala. She has fearlessly delivered on memoir’s greatest promise: to tell it like it is, no matter the cost. The result is an unforgettable book that isn’t only as unsparing as they come, but also defiantly flooded with light. Premi e riconoscimentiMenzioniElenchi di rilievo
On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir, she describes those first horrifying moments and her long journey since. She has written an engrossing, unsentimental, beautifully poised account: as she struggles through the first months following the tragedy, furiously clenched against a reality that she cannot face and cannot deny; and then, over the ensuing years, as she emerges reluctantly, slowly allowing her memory to take her back through the rich and joyous life she's mourning, from her family's home in London, to the birth of her children, to the year she met her English husband at Cambridge, to her childhood in Colombo; all the while learning the difficult balance between the almost unbearable reminders of her loss and the need to keep her family, somehow, still alive within her.--Publisher description. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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