{"product_id":"when-memory-dies-1905147597","title":"When Memory Dies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1905147597\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Sivanandan, A.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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 SupplementA 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.Through 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.The 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.**Winner of the Sagittarius Prize **Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize**\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52191763661088,"sku":"NEW1905147597","price":19.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61hO2uXUg2L.jpg?v=1786841064","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/when-memory-dies-1905147597","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}