Wave
Sonali Deraniyagala
A profoundly moving, piercingly frank memoir of learning to live with grief--that begins in Sri Lanka on Dec. 26, 2004, when the author lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived.
- Publisher
- Virago Press
- ISBN-13
- 9781844089079
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Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for AutobiographyShortlistedMajor(2013)
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