All Is Burning & In The Garden Secretly ( Set of 2)

This combo product is bundled in India but the publishing origin of this title may vary.Publication date of this bundle is the creation date of this bundle; the actual publication date of child items may vary.Each story in this collection captures a defining moment in the life of the narrator caught in a time of violent change. In the title story set against the backdrop of the seventeen-year struggle between the state and the Tamil separatists an abandoned home in the war-torn north makes a young airman re-evaluate what he is doing. The great division between the north and the south of the island also underlies The Crossing where a simple journey becomes a transition from one life to another for two travellers - a young student and an elderly woman. All the other stories in the collection also delicately explore the legacies of war the mistrust the insecurity the fear and the fragmentation. Written with great sensitivity and lyricism this collection is a moving human record of the recent tragic history of the island-nation.Nineteen stories of rare power from the heart of war-ravaged Sri Lanka. In these stories Jean Arasanayagam brings us voices that are not normally heard those of anonymous men and women searching for order and reason in the midst of a ruthless civil war. While many succumb to the horror of their times there are others who discover in themselves unexpected reserves that will help them survive. Thus a young Sinhala man turns his back on an aimless upper-class existence and joins a group of Tamil refugees smuggling themselves into Germany a woman goes out alone to see the scene of a carnage to try and find her daughters lover among the dead and dying a maid returns from the rich desert city of Doha to the green half-jungle of her village in northern Sri Lanka and rediscovers happiness despite the uncertain future. In addition to stories about the effects of war and violence this collection also explores aspects of ethnicity and individual choice in a multicultural society. All is Burning is truth-telling at its poignant best.