Bringing Tony Home by Tissa Abeysekara

Bringing Tony Home by Tissa Abeysekara

Set in the 1940s and 1960s, Bringing Tony Home is a masterful modern example of a timeless genre, the bildungsroman. In the title novella, a boy returns to his old home to find Tony, his beloved dog who was abandoned when economic circumstances forced the family to leave. Bringing Tony Home recounts this perilous journey in detail, movingly tracing the boy's rescue attempts and his spiraling emotions as he endures changes occurring in his family. In Elsewhere: Something Like a Love Story, a young boy finds forbidden love with a schoolmate scorned for her poverty. Elsewhere continues their saga, touching on the bittersweet memories they share as adults, and on the woman's increasingly precarious place in a society concerned only with status. The other stories, Poor Young Man: A Requiem and Hark, The Moaning Pond: A Grandmother's Tale, delve into a young man's relationship with his father as the latter's fortunes fade, and into the now-mature man's attempts to come to grips with the death of his grandmother and what she symbolized. Abeysekara's ability to evoke the sights and sounds of another time and place, and his skill in rendering the inner lives of his characters, make Bringing Tony Home a remarkable read.

Tissa Abeysekara began writing fiction in his native Sinhala, Sri Lanka, in the late 1950s. Also one of the country's most respected screenwriters and directors, he is the author of In My Kingdom of the Sun; The Holy Peak; Roots, Reflections and Reminiscences; and other books. He lives in Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka.

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ISBN 13	9781556437571
ISBN 10	1556437579
Title	Bringing Tony Home
Author	Tissa Abeysekara
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	North Atlantic Books,U.S.
Year published	2008-11-25
Number of pages	224
Prizes	Winner of The Gratiaen Prize 1996
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