When Memory Dies
$24.95
- Paperback
600 pages
- Release Date
20 September 2007
Summary
“Haunting, with an immense tenderness … Unforgettable” - JOHN BERGER
“I’m recommending When Memory Dies to everyone” - ARTHUR C. CLARKE
“Profoundly moving” - Evening Standard
“A brilliant and moving first novel” - Times Literary Supplement
A 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.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781905147595 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1905147597 |
| Author: | A. Sivanandan |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | Arcadia Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 600 |
| Release Date: | 20 September 2007 |
| Weight: | 333g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 130mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
“This rich novel, peopled with unforgettable heroines and heroes, will haunt the reader’s mind.”
“Haunting, with an immense tenderness. The extraordinary poetic tact of this book makes it unforgettable.” - John Berger, Guardian”A brilliant and moving first novel” - Times Literary Supplement”This rich novel, peopled with unforgettable heroines and heroes, will haunt the reader’s mind - David Rose, Observer
A. Sivanandan
A. (AMBALAVANER) SIVANANDAN was born in 1923 and came to Britain from Sri Lanka in the wake of the race riots of 1958 - and walked straight into the riots of Notting Hill. Since then he wrote and lectured extensively on Black and Third World issues and published two collections of essays, A Different Hunger and Communities of Resistance. His novel When Memory Dies (1997) was winner of the 1998 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in the Best First Book category. Sivanandan was founder editor of the journal Race & Class and director of the Institute of Race Relations in London. He died in 2018.
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