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The Lament of the Dhobi Woman

by Karen Roberts

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A powerful and disturbing tale for our times in which the historical and the allegorical are combined with consumate skill. Channa Wickremesekera is among the most astute, inventive and courageous of Sri Lankan Diasporic writers today - Suvendrini Perera, Curtin University of Technology. Long Listed for the Dublin Impac Prize 2012. Writing with keen insight into the psyche of the displaced Channa Wickremesekera, author of Distant Warriors and Walls, brings his characters into the close confines of a boat escaping a conflict zone. Will a series of unfortunate events precipitate disaster on them before nature unleashes a savage storm? Only time will tell as they race inexorably toward their destiny.… (more)
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A powerful and disturbing tale for our times in which the historical and the allegorical are combined with consumate skill. Channa Wickremesekera is among the most astute, inventive and courageous of Sri Lankan Diasporic writers today - Suvendrini Perera, Curtin University of Technology. Long Listed for the Dublin Impac Prize 2012. Writing with keen insight into the psyche of the displaced Channa Wickremesekera, author of Distant Warriors and Walls, brings his characters into the close confines of a boat escaping a conflict zone. Will a series of unfortunate events precipitate disaster on them before nature unleashes a savage storm? Only time will tell as they race inexorably toward their destiny.

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