Description
In a linked sequence of vignettes, a ruminative van driver named Vasantha moves through post-war Sri Lanka, carrying passengers, stories, and silences from one moment to the next. As the country tries to rebuild after the 2004 tsunami and the end of a brutal civil war, his daily routes become a quiet lens on grief, survival, and the uneasy work of living with memory. Gunesekera’s perceptive, sombre style turns ordinary streets and shifting weather into a meditation on trauma’s afterlife—where the past is never fully gone, only reshaped. Blending realism with lyrical observation, this novel explores resilience, moral complexity, and the fragile, human search for meaning in the long aftermath of catastrophe.
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paperback
Granta
Published Jan 1, 2014
237 pages
ISBN: 9781783780150
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Details
First Published
2010
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Noontide Toll by Romesh Gunesekera.