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Title
Wave / Sonali Deraniyagala.
Author
Deraniyagala, Sonali.
Publication
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.

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227 p.; 20 cm.
Summary
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.
Subject
  • Deraniyagala, Sonali
  • Deraniyagala, Sonali > Family
  • Disaster victims > Sri Lanka > Biography
  • Widows > Biography
  • Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004
  • Bereavement
  • Parents > Death
  • Children > Death
Note
  • "Borzoi Books."--t.p. verso.
Call Number
JFC 13-682
ISBN
  • 9780307962690
  • 0307962695
LCCN
  • 2012040980
  • 40022059909
OCLC
798058750
Author
Deraniyagala, Sonali.
Title
Wave / Sonali Deraniyagala.
Imprint
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
Edition
1st ed.
Other Standard Identifier
40022059909
Research Call Number
JFC 13-682
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