
The Story of a Brief Marriage
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Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize
Two and a half decades into a devastating civil war, Sri Lanka's Tamil minority is pushed inexorably towards the coast by the advancing army. Amongst the evacuees is Dinesh, whose world has contracted to a makeshift camp where time is measured by the shells that fall around him like clockwork. Alienated from family, home, language, and body, he exists in a state of mute acceptance, numb to the violence around him, till he is approached one morning by an old man who makes an unexpected proposal: that Dinesh marry his daughter, Ganga. Marriage, in this world, is an attempt at safety, like the beached fishing boat under which Dinesh huddles during the bombings. As a couple, they would be less likely to be conscripted to fight for the rebels, and less likely to be abused in the case of an army victory. Thrust into this situation of strange intimacy and dependence, Dinesh and Ganga try to come to terms with everything that has happened, hesitantly attempting to awaken to themselves and to one another before the war closes over them once more.
Anuk Arudpragasam's The Story of a Brief Marriage is a feat of extraordinary sensitivity and imagination, a meditation on the fundamental elements of human existence - eating, sleeping, washing, touching, speaking - that give us direction and purpose, even as the world around us collapses. Set over the course of a single day and night, this unflinching debut confronts marriage and war, life and death, bestowing on its subjects the highest dignity, however briefly.
- Listening Length6 hours and 13 minutes
- Audible release dateAug. 22 2017
- LanguageEnglish
- ASINB073WG3SLV
- VersionUnabridged
- Program TypeAudiobook
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Listening Length | 6 hours and 13 minutes |
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Author | Anuk Arudpragasam |
Narrator | Ronny Matthew |
Audible.ca Release Date | August 22 2017 |
Publisher | Audible Studios |
Program Type | Audiobook |
Version | Unabridged |
Language | English |
ASIN | B073WG3SLV |
Best Sellers Rank | #129,222 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #5,667 in Literary Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) #8,438 in War Fiction (Books) #15,646 in Family Life |
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P. S. The only trouble I faced was the lack of proper punctuations that confused me at times. Maybe it was a creative decision of the writer to do so, but it was certainly annoying.

Well written , lucidly expressed , pregnant with dark images which could be disturbing and distressing .