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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST - One woman's searing account of losing her entire family in a tsunami. "The most exceptional book about grief I've ever read.... As unsparing as they come, but also defiantly flooded with light.... Extraordinary." --Cheryl Strayed, The New York Times Book Review
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century In 2004, at a beach resort on the coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala and her family--parents, husband, sons--were swept away by a tsunami. Only Sonali survived to tell their tale. This is her account of the nearly incomprehensible event and its aftermath.
Author: Sonali Deraniyagala
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 12/31/2013
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.30w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780345804310
ISBN10: 0345804317
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Social Science | Disasters & Disaster Relief
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century In 2004, at a beach resort on the coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala and her family--parents, husband, sons--were swept away by a tsunami. Only Sonali survived to tell their tale. This is her account of the nearly incomprehensible event and its aftermath.
Author: Sonali Deraniyagala
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 12/31/2013
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.30w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780345804310
ISBN10: 0345804317
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Social Science | Disasters & Disaster Relief
About the Author
SONALI DERANIYAGALA teaches in the Department of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She is currently a visiting research scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, New York, working on issues of economic development, including post-disaster recovery.