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Sonali Deraniyagala (born 1964) is a Sri Lankan memoirist and economist. She serves as a lecturer in Economics at the SOAS South Asia Institute. She considers Joan Didion and Michael Ondaatje her favourite literary heroes.
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5 mar 2013 · Sonali Deraniyagala lost her husband, two sons and parents to the Indian Ocean tsunami that claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people. Her new memoir recounts the events of that...
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22 mar 2013 · Sonali Deraniyagala’s extraordinary memoir, “Wave,” opens on the morning of Dec. 26, 2004, as the author putters around a Sri Lankan beach-side hotel with her family.
Wave: Life and Memories after the Tsunami is a memoir by the Sri Lankan educator Sonali Deraniyagala about the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. [1] [2] It was first published in 2013 by Alfred A. Knopf. [3] .
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5 mar 2013 · Ms. Deraniyagala is an economist, originally from Sri Lanka, who teaches at the University of London and at Columbia. On the day after Christmas in 2004, she and her family were staying at a...
3 apr 2013 · Deraniyagala's memoir about losing her husband and sons in the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami is, for William Dalrymple, possibly one of the most moving books ever written about grief William...
Apr 10, 2024. While on vacation at a beach resort on the coast of Sri Lanka in 2004, Sonali Deraniyagala lost most of her close family members in the Indian Ocean tsunami. Wave is Deraniyagala's account of the nearly incomprehensible event and its emotional aftermath.
