A. Sivanandan

Broschiertes Buch

When Memory Dies

Beschreibung

Through the viewpoints of three generations of a Sri Lankan family (taking the reader from 1920 through the 1980s), this title explores a culture destroyed first by colonization, then through the ethnic divisions that are released when the country achieves independence.

Autor

A. (AMBALAVANER) SIVANANDAN was born in 1923 and came to Britain from Sri Lanka in the wake of the race riots of 1958 - and walked straight into the riots of Notting Hill. Since then he wrote and lectured extensively on Black and Third World issues and published two collections of essays, A Different Hunger and Communities of Resistance. His novel When Memory Dies (1997) was winner of the 1998 Commonwealth Writers' Prize in the Best First Book category. Sivanandan was founder editor of the journal Race & Class and director of the Institute of Race Relations in London. He died in 2018.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Quercus Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9781905147595
• ISBN-10: 1905147597
• Artikelnr.: 22790380