Description
In a war-torn Sri Lankan landscape where survival is never guaranteed, Dinesh—caught between fear of capture and the threat of forced recruitment—finds himself swept into an unexpected marriage. Offered by an older man in a moment of grim practicality, the union becomes a fragile refuge as Dinesh spends a single day as a husband, moving through love, dread, and the relentless awareness that death could arrive at any hour. With spare, intimate prose, the novel compresses the machinery of conflict into the smallest human details—food, touch, silence, and the body’s quiet betrayals—showing how war invades even the most private promises. At its heart, the book is a meditation on tenderness under pressure, the ethics of choice in coercive times, and the brief, luminous ways people try to make meaning when the future is stolen.
Available Editions
paperback
Center Point Large Print
Published Jan 1, 2017
ISBN: 9781683244349
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Details
First Published
2016
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam.