![]() Most of the story takes place in Sri Lanka, an island off the south coast of India. Unwittingly, Munaweera paints a beautiful picture of a verdant island. It exposes the beauty of Sri Lanka and makes me want to visit. ![]() I absolutely love this book and thank you Book browse for sending me a free copy. It brings the gorgeous Island of Sri Lanka to life and paints the life of it's protagonists: Yasodhara, Saraswati, Lanka, Shiva etc.in a very three dimensional way. ![]() Her story is judgment free and poignantly beautiful. Munaweera's book captures the gore, & the human element of war without machismo, glamour, or pontifications. Later the cry for an independent Eelam by the Tamil tigers led that country into 20 plus years of the worst kind of atrocities. Having been very aware of India's failed peace keeping efforts in Lanka, I remember wondering about the Buddhist ahimsa going awry in that part of the world where monks were the killers and where the Buddhist majority went on a carnage against the Tamil (hindu) minority, thanks to colonial England's segregate and rule policy. ![]() ![]() I have vivid memories of Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi being assassinated by the LTTE female suicide bombers. Island of a thousand mirrors is a story about the Sri Lankan civil war and refreshingly enough all the major protagonists are women. Having read quite a few immigrant fiction about the diaspora South Asian and others, I wasn't expecting much. ![]()
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