Wave - Sonali Deraniyagala torrent

Category: Adults, Autobiography & Biographies, Misc. Non-fiction
Language: English
Keywords: Asia Grief Sri Lanka Tsunami

Written by Sonali Deraniyagala
Read by Hannah Curtis
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
Release date: 03-05-13

“The most exceptional book about grief I’ve ever read…. As unsparing as they come, but also defiantly flooded with light…. Extraordinary.” —Cheryl Strayed, The New York Times Book Review

On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir, she describes those first horrifying moments and her long journey since. She has written an engrossing, unsentimental, beautifully poised account: as she struggles through the first months following the tragedy, furiously clenched against a reality that she cannot face and cannot deny; and then, over the ensuing years, as she emerges reluctantly, slowly allowing her memory to take her back through the rich and joyous life she’s mourning, from her family’s home in London, to the birth of her children, to the year she met her English husband at Cambridge, to her childhood in Colombo; all the while learning the difficult balance between the almost unbearable reminders of her loss and the need to keep her family, somehow, still alive within her.