Wave. About the unimaginable loss and healing power of memory
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About the book
One of the 50 best memoirs and biographies of all time according to the New York Times and Goodreads. The piercing chronicle of unimaginable loss and long painful healing.
We open the book - and the wave covers us: 9 meters high, at a speed of 40 km per hour, it takes us 3 kilometers deep into the coast. And from there, the author’s despair: Sunday on the morning of December 26, 2004, during the tsunami on the southeastern coast of Sri Lanka, Shanali derandal lost her parents, her husband and two sons, and he miraculously survived. In this courageous and honest book of memoirs, she describes difficult days after the tragedy and a long path traveled since then: the first months of a clash with reality, which cannot be accepted or denied, then years of slow, reluctant healing, when the former can already be resurrected in memory A joyful and full life - a living and a comfortable house in London, the birth of children, a meeting with her future husband at the university, childhood in Colombo. Together with the storyteller, we always have to balance on the verge between an unbearable reminder of the loss and the desire to preserve our favorite images in the soul.
Having sorted out memories, the Sonali finds not the bitterness of loss in them, but the source of heat and light, which helps to create and preserve the images of their beloved people. Together with the loss, the revival finally comes. A striking story is thin and at the same time unusually strong.
From the author
recognizing them again, collecting the threads of our lives together, I take part and myself. The clarity of the mind is returning to me. The inevitable question is no longer spinning in my head: "Is I really their mother really?" Is it possible that such a huge part of life suddenly be not mine?
It becomes easier when I let their light into the soul.
For whom this book
For those who are interested in books about the inner strength of a person.
For those who love books that penetrate the skin and are not forgotten.
About the author
Sonali Deranagala teaches the economy at the faculty of Asia and Africa of the University of London. At present, she also conducts scientific research at the faculty of international and public relations of Colombian University - including in the field of economic recovery after large natural disasters
One of the 50 best memoirs and biographies of all time according to the New York Times and Goodreads. The piercing chronicle of unimaginable loss and long painful healing.
We open the book - and the wave covers us: 9 meters high, at a speed of 40 km per hour, it takes us 3 kilometers deep into the coast. And from there, the author’s despair: Sunday on the morning of December 26, 2004, during the tsunami on the southeastern coast of Sri Lanka, Shanali derandal lost her parents, her husband and two sons, and he miraculously survived. In this courageous and honest book of memoirs, she describes difficult days after the tragedy and a long path traveled since then: the first months of a clash with reality, which cannot be accepted or denied, then years of slow, reluctant healing, when the former can already be resurrected in memory A joyful and full life - a living and a comfortable house in London, the birth of children, a meeting with her future husband at the university, childhood in Colombo. Together with the storyteller, we always have to balance on the verge between an unbearable reminder of the loss and the desire to preserve our favorite images in the soul.
Having sorted out memories, the Sonali finds not the bitterness of loss in them, but the source of heat and light, which helps to create and preserve the images of their beloved people. Together with the loss, the revival finally comes. A striking story is thin and at the same time unusually strong.
From the author
recognizing them again, collecting the threads of our lives together, I take part and myself. The clarity of the mind is returning to me. The inevitable question is no longer spinning in my head: "Is I really their mother really?" Is it possible that such a huge part of life suddenly be not mine?
It becomes easier when I let their light into the soul.
For whom this book
For those who are interested in books about the inner strength of a person.
For those who love books that penetrate the skin and are not forgotten.
About the author
Sonali Deranagala teaches the economy at the faculty of Asia and Africa of the University of London. At present, she also conducts scientific research at the faculty of international and public relations of Colombian University - including in the field of economic recovery after large natural disasters
Author:
Author:Дераньягала Сонали
Cover:
Cover:Cover with valves
Category:
- Category:Fiction
- Category:Modern Literature
- Category:Poetry & Literature
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:18+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-00169-184-6
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