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'Nuanced and beguiling... The narrative is crafted with such care that when the veil of words lift, the calamity that lurks beneath rises like a tsunami, suddenly real... beautiful and sad, rising and falling like a love song' --Indian Express
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'A detached and meticulous documentation of civil strife and its management in Sri Lanka, Noontide Toll is a remarkable piece of writing' --The Hindu
'These twelve sparkling stories conjure Sri Lanka's effort to recharge tourism and investment in the wake of upheaval and serious civil strife. Gunesekera has a canny eye for new developments. He observes how the old, effete colonial world interfaces with the new. He is a poet working in prose' ***** --RTE Radio
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Vasantha is a van driver for hire, ferrying aid workers, returning exiles, and tentative entrepreneurs across the battle-scarred landscapes of Sri Lanka. The civil war is finally over, but the traumas of the past are still haunting. Behind the facade of peace we are made to remember the war: mysterious hoteliers conceal scars under their collars; genial old soldiers are secretly identified as perpetrators of brutal crimes; young Sinhalese men pine after Tamil girls whose brothers died by their hands. Vasantha keeps his own counsel, lingering on the periphery of his passengers' stories, but as time goes on he reveals a little of his own story too. Perceptive, sombre and finely-tuned, Noontide Toll paints an extraordinary portrait of a post-war Sri Lanka grappling with the ghosts of its troubled past.
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