Wave

by Sonali Deraniyagala

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.--Publisher description.

• ISBN10: 0307962709
• ISBN13: 9780307962706
• Publish Date: 5 March 2013 (first published 1 January 2013)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Imprint: Vintage Books
• Format: eBook
• Pages: 240
• Language: English

Reviews

[elvinagb]

A beautiful and haunting memoir of a family. Sonali's loss is so overwhelming it's almost hard to even imagine what it would be like to lose your family is such a sudden way. She has tried to convey her grief and it is at times too much to bear and I had to put the book down and walk away. A great tribute to her husband, children and parents.