![]() ![]() ![]() My American mother and Sri Lankan father were actually living in Colombo when the first anti-Tamil riots took place in 1977, a story I've heard dozens of times about my parents' pre-me life in Sri Lanka, but it was quite a different experience reading it through Munaweera's lens, which encapsulated the horror so vividly I could smell the gasoline of burning buses and the blood flung from hacking machetes. Yasodhara tells the story of her own Sinhala family, rich in love, with everything. ![]() Being half Sri Lankan myself, and like Munaweera also born in the country but raised abroad, it was eerie watching the stories of war from my childhood come to life through Munaweera's descriptive prose. Island of a Thousand Mirrors A Novel Author: Nayomi Munaweera Read Excerpt About This Book Before violence tore apart the tapestry of Sri Lanka and turned its pristine beaches red, there were two families. The novel won the Commonwealth Regional Prize for Asia, was selected as Target's Book of the Month for January 2016, as well as being used in multicultural curricula in American universities. Munaweera's debut novel Island of a Thousand Mirrors is a tour de force of marvelous proportions that deftly captures the Sri Lankan civil war from a variety of sides in a most compassionate display of truth-telling through fiction. Nayomi Munaweera is a Sri Lankan born, Nigeria-raised, and now-American author whose novels bottle the essence of a Sri Lankan experience, from a Sinhala, Tamil, and immigrant perspective distilled into some of the most gorgeous prose you'll find within the pages of a book. ![]()
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