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Wave is an enticing yet heartbreaking memoir about sonali deraniyagalas loss of her family and the aftermath she faced afterwards. From her nest in the holmoak tree the nightingale heard him, and she looked out through the leaves, and wondered. Sonali deraniyagala s hypnotic and wrenching account of receiving and surviving a nearlethal blow to the spirit is also a beautiful memorial to the husband, sons, and parents the author lost to the december 26, 2004 tsunami in sri lanka. In this devastating memoir, the author recalls losing her entire family a husband, two young sons and both parents in the tsunami that hit sri lanka in 2004. A memoir of life after the tsunami by sonali deraniyagala epub for free, read online wave. All citations in this study guide refer to the kindle version of wave, published march 5, 20. Mar 19, 20 sonali deraniyagala lost her two small sons, husband and parents in the 2004 tsunami. Always update books hourly, if not looking, search in the book search column. Deraniyagala is an economist by profession but wave is a book by a writer.
Winner of the penackerley prize 2014 the book opens and we are inside the wave. On the morning of december 26, 2004, on the southern coast of sri lanka, sonali deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the, isbn 9780307962690 buy the wave ebook. In 2004, deraniyagala an economist at the university of london, her husband stephen lissenburgh, and their two young sons aged seven and five visited her parents. Sonali deraniyagalas 3 research works with 96 citations and 1114 reads.
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