Island of a Thousand Mirrors (Audiobook)

from Writermala

This book is set in beautiful Sri Lanka which is in the throes of a Civil War - between the Sinhalese and the Tamils. Civil war does not even begin to describe the horrors that this tiny nation faced. It is the description of the travails of ordinary people and ordinary families that portrays the...

from brendajanefrank

Jasmine and Death: The Tragic Civil War of Sri Lanka Through the Eyes of Innocents The evocative, powerful prose of author Nayomi Munaweera depicts the brutal senseless violence of the Sri Lankan Civil War through the eyes of innocent Tamil and Sinhalese families. These experiences of children, m...

from knittingmomof3

An extraordinary look into the lives of two families, one Tamil, one Sinhala, separated by the Sri Lankan War, told through the eyes of the eldest daughter in each family. Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera is an exceptional find and a book I would not hesitate to recommend to all r...

from evilmoose

Nayomi Munaweera is a Sri Lankan/American novelist, and this is her debut novel, published in 2012. Island of a Thousand Mirrors tells a story of families and lovers over decades, caught in and torn apart by the Sri Lankan civil war. Tamil and Sinhala families, arranged marriages, lovers, heartbr...

from GerrysBookshelf

Island of a Thousand Mirrors, published in the US in Sept. 2014, is the debut novel of Nayomi Munaweera, a Sri lankan native who now resides in the US. In 2013 it was long listed for the Man Asia Prize, won the Commonwealth Regional prize for Asia and was short listed for the DSC Prize for South ...