Dinesh and Ganga’s banter and silences stay with you and make you wonder how you would react in such situations. There are so many hopeful moments in the book that sometimes you forget that you are reading a story set in the time of war. How they live thereon and make do with circumstances that surround them is what makes the rest of the book or the entire book what it is. Marriage in this environment of war seems like safety and the two of them do get married. Arudpragasm does a wonderful job of bringing the real to you as you turn the pages and sometimes too scared to turn them as well) till an old man approaches him and proposes that he marry his daughter Ganga.
He lives his days without any reaction to what is going on around him (my heart broke to read descriptions of Dinesh in such situation. He is alienated from home, his family, even from the language he speaks to even his own body. Also, the backdrop (or perhaps just another character) that is Sri Lanka, adds to the tumultuous nature of this brilliant novel that you just cannot not read.ĭinesh has been evacuated to a makeshift refugee camp as the army advances. What I could not believe was that this was the author’s debut, only because the skill and craft is way too meticulous and perfect. There is obviously more to the story than just a marriage in time of war. “The Story of a Brief Marriage” is a raw and stark portrayal of a marriage amidst the civil war in Sri Lanka.
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