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The Other One : Stories /

"Winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction. Set in Sri Lanka and America, the ten short stories in this debut collection feature characters struggling to contend with the brutality of a decades long civil war while also seeking security, love, and hope. The characters are students, accountants, s...

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Auteur principal: Sirisena, Hasanthika (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2016]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Résumé:"Winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction. Set in Sri Lanka and America, the ten short stories in this debut collection feature characters struggling to contend with the brutality of a decades long civil war while also seeking security, love, and hope. The characters are students, accountants, soldiers, servants. They are immigrants and strivers. They are each forced to make sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, choices. What they share, despite what they've endured, is the sustaining power of human connection"--
Description matérielle:1 online resource (160 pages).
ISBN:9781613764534