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Bezig met laden... Wave (origineel 2013; editie 2013)door Sonali Deraniyagala (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Sonya Deraniyagala endured the unthinkable for a wife, mother, and daughter. She saw her loved ones disappear, literally, before her eyes, in the 2004 Indonesian Tsunami. To have turned that experience into an enduring work of inspiration is one thing. To have turned it into an enduring work of art is quite another. I won't spoil for the reader how she survives the grief. You'll have to read the book to find that out. But I can say that her powers of description of the life she knew in England and holidays in Sri Lanka are outstanding prose. The only comparable contemporary work I can think of is I Shall Not Hate by Izzeldin Abuelaish, who lost his daughters and a neice in an attack by an Israeli tank during the Gaza War. I was particularly pleased to read in the ackowledgements the support the author received from one her more famous countrymen, author Michael Ondaatje, and his wife Linda Spalding, two longtime aquaintances of mine and really nice people. I also think of the great contribution Doubleday editor Anne Collins made to Shake Hands With the Devil by Romeo Dallaire. Great works of artists sometimes need a little help from their friends. ( ) Gave up reading half way. I was expecting a story primarily about the Tsunami of 2004. Instead, the tsunami was addressed in the first few chapters of the book and the rest is a memoir about grief and depression. Another reviewer mentioned that this book could have been about the aftermath of a car accident as well and I agree. I got bored and frustrated as the author clearly needed help and was not getting it. Definitely not what I thought it was going to be like, but pretty good still. It dealt with the aftermath of the tsunami and the gut wrenching process which would follow if you lost your parents and entire immediate family, including children. You can tell how much she is pain and then you can even feel her getting better, with new obstacles now. The comments about the book on the back and front made it seem it was one of the best books of the year. I don't know about that but its worth reading for sure. Definitely not what I thought it was going to be like, but pretty good still. It dealt with the aftermath of the tsunami and the gut wrenching process which would follow if you lost your parents and entire immediate family, including children. You can tell how much she is pain and then you can even feel her getting better, with new obstacles now. The comments about the book on the back and front made it seem it was one of the best books of the year. I don't know about that but its worth reading for sure.
This is possibly the most moving book I have ever read about grief, but it is also a very, very fine book about love. For grief is the black hole that is left in our lives when we lose someone irreplaceable – a child, a parent, a lover. It is the negative image that, in its blackness, sometimes reveals love with a greater clarity than its positive counterpart. And while in Wave love reveals itself by the bleak intensity of the pain of absolute, irreplaceable loss, it is in the end a love story, and a book about the importance of love. It is a nightmarish tale of what happened that desperate day and the desolation and rage that followed. At times, Deraniyagala’s honesty shocks. The word “brave” is used a lot to describe those who write about their deepest traumas — too often, I think — but it’s an apt description of Deraniyagala. She has fearlessly delivered on memoir’s greatest promise: to tell it like it is, no matter the cost. The result is an unforgettable book that isn’t only as unsparing as they come, but also defiantly flooded with light. PrijzenOnderscheidingenErelijsten
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)954.9303History and Geography Asia India and South Asia Other South Asia Sri LankaLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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