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A sensational literary debut of two young women on opposing factors of the damaging Sri Lankan Civil War. Before assault tore aside the tapestry of Sri Lanka and transformed its pristine seashores red, there have been two family members. Yasodhara tells the story of her own Sinhala family, rich in love, with everything they could ask for. As a kid in idyllic Colombo, sociable hierarchies, their parents' ambitions, and adolescent love form Yasodhara and her siblings' lives, and, subtly, the dissimilarities between Tamil and Sinhala people; but the peace is shattered by the tragedies of conflict. Yasodhara's family escapes to LA. But Yasodhara's life has already become intertwined with a Tamil girl's. Saraswathi is surviving in the active conflict area of Sri Lanka and hope to become professor. But her dreams for future years are abruptly stamped out when she is arrested by a group of Sinhala soldiers and pulled into the very center of the turmoil that she has tried so difficult to avoid - a turmoil that, eventually, will hook up her and Yasodhara in surprising ways. In the traditions of Michael Ondatje's Anil's Ghost and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, Island of one thousand Mirrors is an emotionally resonant saga of ethnic heritage, heartbreaking turmoil, and profound family bonds. Narrated in two unforgettably genuine voices and spanning the entirety of the decades-long civil conflict, it provides an unparalleled family portrait of a lovely land during its most difficult moment by way of a spellbinding new literary expertise who promises remarkable what to come.
