![]() ![]() ![]() Alwis, the local coconut picker, drags Mala to safety as the mob lights bodies and vehicles on fire. Trapped inside the car, Mala witnesses as Anuradha is violently murdered while trying to protect the Tamil boy from the crowd. They quickly encounter a mob in the streets, and Anuradha leaves the car to protect a Tamil schoolboy from “the glint of knives, broken bottles, machetes” (86). Anuradha offers to fetch a doctor, but Mala fears what may happen to him alone on the streets, so they venture out in their car toward the hospital. Before violence tore apart the tapestry of Sri Lanka and turned its pristine beaches red, there were two families. ![]() Mala feels intense labor pains during the third night of a 24-hour curfew on the town. A stunning literary debut of two young women on opposing sides of the devastating Sri Lankan Civil War - winner of the Commonwealth Book Prize for Asia, longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. Sylvia Sunethra lies to the mob to protect the Tamil Shivalingam family upstairs, managing to thwart the violence for three full days while the Shivalingam family flees. Their budding romantic interest halts when violent mobs attack Tamil residences one night. Before violence tore apart the tapestry of Sri Lanka and turned its pristine beaches red, there were two families two young women, ripe for love with hopes for the future and a chance encounter that leads to the terrible heritage they must reckon with for years to come. Yasodhara and Shiva remain oblivious to the encroaching violence and notice one another’s attractiveness. ![]() Rumors of impending disaster and violence intensify. Island of a Thousand Mirrors, Munaweeras debut novel, was published in South Asia in 2012 and in the U.S. ![]()
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