![]() ![]() In 2016 she released her second novel What Lies Between Us. Her 2012 debut Island of a Thousand Mirrors won Commonwealth Book Prize for the Asian Region in 2013 and was shortlisted for a number of other awards. Nayomi Munaweera is a Sri Lankan American writer and author of two novels. Currently-lives in the San Francisco Bay area.Awards-Commonwealth Book Prize (Asian Region). ![]() Education-B.A., University of California (UCAL), Irving M.A., UCAL, Riverside.It offers an unparalleled portrait of a beautiful land during its most difficult moments. In the end, love and longing promise only an uneasy peace.Ī sweeping saga with the intimacy of a memoir that brings to mind epic fiction like The Kite Runner and The God of Small Things, Nayomi Munaweera's Island of a Thousand Mirrors strikes mercilessly at the heart of war. One tragic moment that defines the fate of these women and their families will haunt their choices for decades to come. A family epic set against the backdrop of the Sri Lankan civil war comes to poignant and powerful life in this lyrical and riveting debut novel by Nayomi Munaweera.īefore violence tore apart the tapestry of Sri Lanka and turned its pristine beaches red, there were two families two young women, ripe for love with hopes for the future and a chance encounter that leads to the terrible heritage they must reckon with for years to come. ![]()
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