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Title: The Story of a Brief Marriage
Author: Anuk Arudpragasam
Narrator: Ronny Matthew
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-22-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:
Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize
Two and a half decades into a devastating civil war, Sri Lanka's Tamil minority is pushed inexorably towards the coast by the advancing army. Amongst the evacuees is Dinesh, whose world has contracted to a makeshift camp where time is measured by the shells that fall around him like clockwork. Alienated from family, home, language, and body, he exists in a state of mute acceptance, numb to the violence around him, till he is approached one morning by an old man who makes an unexpected proposal: that Dinesh marry his daughter, Ganga. Marriage, in this world, is an attempt at safety, like the beached fishing boat under which Dinesh huddles during the bombings. As a couple, they would be less likely to be conscripted to fight for the rebels, and less likely to be abused in the case of an army victory. Thrust into this situation of strange intimacy and dependence, Dinesh and Ganga try to come to terms with everything that has happened, hesitantly attempting to awaken to themselves and to one another before the war closes over them once more.
Anuk Arudpragasam's The Story of a Brief Marriage is a feat of extraordinary sensitivity and imagination, a meditation on the fundamental elements of human existence - eating, sleeping, washing, touching, speaking - that give us direction and purpose, even as the world around us collapses. Set over the course of a single day and night, this unflinching debut confronts marriage and war, life and death, bestowing on its subjects the highest dignity, however briefly.

Critic Reviews:
BraveBrilliantThis is a book that makes one kneel before the elegance of the human spirit and the yearning that is at the essence of every life. (
The New York Times Book Review)
"One of the best books I have read in years." (Colm Toibin,
New York Times best-selling author of
Brooklyn)

Members Reviews:
Compelling and transforming
Today I was looking for another book by the same author... a great story told simply and .beautifully told me about the human side of a horrible conflict. I look forward to a new work!

A very interesting piece of writing. The story line ...
A very interesting piece of writing. The story line is simple, but it is the language that makes the
book special - it is very detailed and evocative and takes the reader into an experiential engagement
with the life of the protagonist and the others in the refugee camp. A thoroughly stimulating
read.

Poetic, heartbreaking take on war
Beautiful, heartbreaking evocation of both the horrors of war and the greatness of the human spirit.

Five Stars
An exquisite meditation on what it means to be himant

An unusual subject about a human situation, that of ...
An unusual subject about a human situation, that of a refugee fleeing a war.
The topic was thought provoking.
It was a brief marriage but also a brief story.