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A profoundly moving, piercingly frank memoir of grief -- of learning to live with grief -- that begins in Sri Lanka on December 26, 2004, when the author lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived.

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Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala

A profoundly moving, piercingly frank memoir of grief -- of learning to live with grief -- that begins in Sri Lanka on December 26, 2004, when the author lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived.
In her unflinching writing you live through the horror and despair, but also feel her self-generated repair and the promise of survival -- Harriet Walter * The Week *
Sonali Deraniyagala was born and raised in Colombo, Sri Lanka. She has an undergraduate degree in Economics from Cambridge University and a doctorate in Economics from the University of Oxford. She is on the faculty of the Department of Economics at SOAS, University of London and is a research scholar at Columbia University, New York City. She lives in New York, and North London.
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ISBN 13 9781844089079
ISBN 10 184408907X
Title Wave
Author Sonali Deraniyagala
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Year published 2013-03-12
Number of pages 224
Prizes Short-listed for PEN Ackerley Prize 2014 (UK)
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.