Name: Not Quite Paradise (en Inglés)
Price: 98365.00 COP
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Author: Adele Barker
ISBN: 9780807000618

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Beacon Press

Autor

Adele Barker

Año

2010

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

312

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN

0807000612

ISBN13

9780807000618

N° edición

Categorías

Biografías
Educación

Not Quite Paradise (en Inglés)

Adele Barker (Autor) · Beacon Press · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "Not Quite Paradise (en Inglés)"

A chronicle of life on the resplendent island, combining the immediacy of memoir with the vividness of travelogue and reportage Adele Barker and her son, Noah, settled into the central highlands of Sri Lanka for an eighteen-month sojourn, immersing themselves in the customs, cultures, and landscapes of the island—its elephants, birds, and monkeys; its hot curries and sweet mangoes; the cacophony of its markets; the resonant evening chants from its temples. They hear stories of the island’s colorful past and its twenty-five-year civil war between the Sinhalese majority and the Tamil Tigers. When, having returned home to Tucson, Barker awakes on December 26, 2004, to see televised images of the island’s southern shore disappearing into the ocean, she decides she must go back. Traveling from the southernmost coasts to the farthest outposts of the Tamil north, she witnesses the ravages of the tsunami that killed forty-eight thousand Sri Lankans in the space of twenty minutes, and reports from the ground on the triumphs and failures of relief efforts. Combining the immediacy of memoir and the vividness of travelogue with the insight of the best reportage, Not Quite Paradise chronicles life in a place few have ever visited.