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Noon Tide Toll

by Romesh Gunesekera
$8.90
Noon Tide Toll
Noon Tide Toll

Post-war Sri Lankan journey through scars and healing.

"Noon Tide Toll" offers you a unique seat beside Vasantha, the van driver with a silent yet profound perspective on Sri Lanka's post-war landscape. Through his eyes, you'll encounter a mosaic of human stories, each grappling with the aftermath of conflict. This book might resonate with you if you appreciate narratives that engage with the complexities of healing and the resilience of the human spirit in the wake of collective trauma.

  • DSC Prize Nominee for South Asian Literature (2015)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Noon Tide Toll

by Romesh Gunesekera
$8.90
ISBN: 9781783780174
Authors: Romesh Gunesekera
Publisher: Granta Books
Date of Publication: 2015-05-07
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction
Related Topics: Asian Literature, War
Goodreads rating: 3.72
(rated by 403 readers)

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Vasantha is a van driver for hire, ferrying aid workers, returning exiles, and tentative entrepreneurs across the battle-scarred landscapes of Sri Lanka. The civil war is finally over, but the traumas of the past are still haunting. Behind the facade of peace we are made to remember the mysterious hoteliers conceal scars under their collars; genial old soldiers are secretly identified as perpetrators of brutal crimes; young Sinhalese men pine after Tamil girls whose brothers died by their hands. Vasantha keeps his own counsel, lingering on the periphery of his passengers' stories, but as time goes on he reveals a little of his own story too. Perceptive, sombre and finely-tuned, Noon Tide Toll paints an extraordinary portrait of a post-war Sri Lanka grappling with the ghosts of its troubled past.
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Post-war Sri Lankan journey through scars and healing.

"Noon Tide Toll" offers you a unique seat beside Vasantha, the van driver with a silent yet profound perspective on Sri Lanka's post-war landscape. Through his eyes, you'll encounter a mosaic of human stories, each grappling with the aftermath of conflict. This book might resonate with you if you appreciate narratives that engage with the complexities of healing and the resilience of the human spirit in the wake of collective trauma.

  • DSC Prize Nominee for South Asian Literature (2015)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.