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V.V. Ganeshananthan - Love Marriage

Kepler's Bookstore

April 30, 2008

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Sri Lanka, a paradisiacal gem on the Indian Ocean, has been plagued by over 25 years of bloody warfare between minority Tamil separatists and the majority Sinhalese government, and was ravaged by the 2004 tsunami. Yet Sri Lanka garners little attention on the international stage, despite the fascinating complexities of its population—Tamils, Muslims, Burghers, and Sinhalese all intermingled on this tropical island—and its struggles with human rights violations by both militant groups and the government.

One of the first-ever novels to deal with Sri Lanka and its ongoing war, V.V. Ganeshananthan’s Love Marriage examines decades of families suffering from this war and displacement. At the novel’s core, a young Sri Lankan-American woman feels trapped between Arranged Marriages and Love Marriages, between passions and ethnic allegiances, between the judgments of her ancestors and the modern world in which she lives.

Love Marriage is V.V. Ganeshananthan’s first novel, but she is already an accomplished and credentialed writer: she studied at Harvard with Jamaica Kincaid, and at Iowa with Frank Conroy, Ethan Canin and Elizabeth McCracken; her journalism has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Wall Street Journal, and American Prospect. In this fiction debut, Ganeshananthan uses lyrical vignettes to knit together generations of marriages, and to meditate on universal themes of family, love, duty, and honor. Ganeshananthan's rich and sparkling prose bring this distant foreign conflict to life and shows its ramifications in other times and places.

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