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Articles by Sonali Deraniyagala
Delivering Economic Recovery with Humane and Equitable Development
no comments. Share On Facebook Share On Twitter Email This Article Photo courtesy of Sri Lanka Brief Sri Lanka plunged into a dystopian economic reality in 2022. Even in the present global downturn few countries match it in the stunning speed and severity of its collapse. The economy has contracted by nearly 10 per cent this year and Sri Lankans know what this macroeconomic number feels like in human terms – a devastating loss of incomes, hunger and under nourishment, scarcity and ill health.
America's Covid battle, revisited
Book review of THE PLAGUE YEAR: America in the Time of Covid Topics Coronavirus | United States | Tsunami https://mybs.in/2Zf8x9G What happened? Our response to catastrophe is often bewilderment. This past year, much of the world found itself in a daze as an unknown virus appeared, rushed through countries and continents, and killed more than three and a half million people.
Book Review: ‘The Plague Year,’ by Lawrence Wright
Nonfiction Credit...Ana Minimoshvili June 7, 2021 THE PLAGUE YEAR America in the Time of Covid By Lawrence Wright What happened? Our response to catastrophe is often bewilderment. This past year, much of the world found itself in a daze as an unknown virus appeared, rushed through countries and continents, and killed more than three and a half million people.
Seven books to get you in your feelings since we’re all a bit numb
I love books. I work in books. I spend my spare time running a magazine about books “by Black, Asian, and racialised community writers”, called Bad Form. And if my past year surrounded with books has taught me anything, it’s the importance of a good one to help you process your own emotions. You can project your feelings onto the characters as a distraction.
Wave | IndieBound.org
Main navigation Wave (Paperback) By Sonali Deraniyagala Vintage, 9780345804310, 240pp. Publication Date: December 31, 2013 Other Editions of This Title: Digital Audiobook (3/4/2013) Hardcover (3/5/2013) Compact Disc (3/5/2013) Paperback, Large Print (1/28/2014) Hardcover, Large Print (8/28/2013) Paperback (3/1/2013) List Price: 15.95* * Individual store prices may vary.
On loss and bereavement
Photo courtesy Tamil Guardian ‘This is how we felt after the tsunami, stunned, bewildered.’ So many friends in Sri Lanka said this to me in days following the Easter Sunday suicide bombings this year. I could see what they meant. Not only were the bombings utterly horrific, but they were also outlandish and unforeseen. They struck on a holiday and were aimed at families gathered in celebration, relaxation, and prayer.
Watch Your Poetry With The Visible Poetry Project
The Visible Poetry Project has a clear mission: launch 30 videos in the 30 days of April to celebrate National Poetry Month. They see this goal as “an exercise in translation and a reclamation of both poetic and film discourses.” They pair up at least 30 filmmakers with at least 30 poets over the course of several months. Poets and filmmakers may work as closely as they wish, including not at all, as the filmmakers interpret the poems.
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala If someone were to recommend a novel in which the reader knows, from Page 1—in fact, from the back cover—that the protagonist loses five people she loves in a matter of moments, I would be skeptical. It would be too far-fetched for fiction. But Wave, Sonali Deraniyagala’s devastating memoir about the 2004 tsunami, is not fiction.
The Arctic & the Tropics
This week Alice and Kim talk arctic explorers, murder in the tropics, and the mixed reactions to nonfiction bestseller Girl, Wash Your Face. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Read Harder Journal. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura.
Almost 1,500 People Died in Indonesia. 3 Books Show the Impact of Other Tsunamis.
The death toll in Indonesia, which was hit with both a tsunami and earthquake this week, climbed to almost 1,500 on Wednesday, with more homes lost. For perspective on what it’s like to live through a tsunami, read these books. Carrère was on vacation in Sri Lanka with his family in 2004 when, one morning, a tsunami struck and killed at least a quarter million people across five countries.
Akhil Sharma’s ‘Family Life’
“Where is Ajay? What was the point of having raised him?” an elderly woman grumbles to her husband about their adult son in the opening pages of Akhil Sharma’s semi-autobiographical new novel, “Family Life.” This book, deeply unnerving and gorgeously tender at its core, charts the young life of Ajay Mishra as he struggles to grow within a family shattered by loss and disoriented by a recent move from India to America.
Wave
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. Uitgeverij Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V. Imprint Little, Brown Book Group Uitgegeven als Paperback Eerste editie 01-01-2013 Laatste editie 12-03-2013 ISBN 9781844089079 Aantal pagina's 224 Taal Engels
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