![]() ![]() ' astonishing novel, written in intense and rhythmnical prose, shocking and numbing in turn' - Lisa McInerney, Irish Independent 'A novel of hymn-like grace' - Wall Street Journal Arudpragasam's unadorned and measured prose recalls Primo Levi's If This Is a Man' - Irish Times A pensive and tender portrait of how human beings reach for each other in times of need, the novel explores what it means to be alive when dignity has been stripped away. ![]() ' The Story of a Brief Marriage a glimpse into a fledgling relationship formed under extreme circumstances. Arudpragasam is aware above all of what fragile creatures we are, and writes of horrors with great compassion and delicacy' - Daily Mail 'Us placid, even poetic prose The Story of a Brief Marriage takes a fraught political-historical moments and creates out of it a fable-like novel. a hypnotic, harrowing book' - Mail on Sunday Arudpragasam writes with control, clarity and a terrible beauty that acknowledges the world's grandeur in the midst of darkness' - Financial Times The Story of a Brief Marriage is a strange, profound, mini-masterpiece of a novel. ![]()
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