Wave - Tapa blanda

"This is the most powerful and haunting book I've read in years.... In A Whaler's Dictionary there's the line, 'Ishmael's impossible task is to write about a world that falls outside the realm of experience.' And what Sonali Deraniyagala has done, in this beautifully written book, is to similarly give us a portrait of an event and its after-effects that we have never experienced or witnessed. At the same time she has brought back to life in this stunning memoir all those she lost, so much so that we will never forget them or their lives."
--Michael Ondaatje
"An amazing, beautiful book."
--Joan Didion
""Wave," is a memoir for the ages - one of the saddest stories a human being could ever tell, told brilliantly, with devastating insight into the heart of love and death.... An eloquent monument to the deep human necessity of storytelling."
--John Barber, "Globe and Mail
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"This is possibly the most moving book I have ever read about grief, but it is also a very, very fine book about love. . . . While in "Wave" love reveals itself by the bleak intensity of the pain of absolute, irreplaceable loss, it is in the end a love story, and a book about the importance of love."
--"The Guardian" (U.K.)
""Wave "contains solemn and essential truths. . . . We are in some way fortified for our own inevitable, if lesser, struggles. . . . In accurately describing her family's life . . . she rescues [them] from uncaring, careless fate. Losing them plunged her into darkness. Writing about what happens brings them into the light. . . ."
--Teju Cole, newyorker.com
"Stories of grief, like stories of love, are of permanent literary interest when done well . . . A form of greatness reverberates from Deraniyagala's simple and supple prose."
-- "New York Times
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"Like Joan Didion's "Year of Magical Thinking," "Wave" captures the elusive shape-shifting nature of grief."
-- "Newsday"
"A bracing and ruthlessly self-conf

- "An unforgettable book. . .unsparing as they come, but also defiantly flooded with light." -- Cheryl Strayed, "New York Times Book Review"
- "This is the most powerful and haunting book I've read in years." -- Michael Ondaatje
- "An amazing, beautiful book." -- Joan Didion
- ""Wave" is a memoir for the ages. . . . An eloquent monument to the deep human necessity of storytelling." -- John Barber, "Globe and Mail"

A poignant memoir of the author's experiences as a survivor of the 2004 tsunami that killed her parents, husband and two young sons recounts her struggles with profound grief and survivor's guilt and her gradual steps toward remembering the joyful times she shared with lost loved ones. (biography & autobiography).