![]() ![]() As the novel opens, he gets word that his grandmother’s former carer, a woman named Rani, has died violently. He is working at an NGO in Colombo and living with his mother and ailing grandmother in the family home. Having studied in India, Tamil Krishan has come back to the island. ![]() He returns to the same landscape for his second novel, A Passage North, the action of which takes place in the years following the government victory. In 2009 the war came to a bloody and unexpected end when Sri Lankan government forces attacked and overwhelmed the rebel-held north.Īnuk Arudpragasam, a Sri Lankan writer of Tamil heritage, wrote his first novel, The Story of a Brief Marriage, about a young Tamil couple who are trying to survive in a shrinking northern enclave as the government forces close in around them. It had its roots in an ethnic conflict between the island’s largely Buddhist, Sinhala-speaking population in the south and the Tamil minority in the north. F or almost 30 years, the beautiful teardrop-shaped island of Sri Lanka was divided by a terrible civil war. ![]()
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