The Story of a Brief Marriage examines the violence and tenderness of human beings in a time of war, but one suspects that Anuk Arudpragasam could choose to write about anybody, in any circumstance, and through his pen one would feel the mysterious tug of time upon their senses and the nakedness of their minds before the world - Kevin Brockmeier, author * The Illumination * This small story of a brief marriage sends out ripples far beyond its parameters: it bears witness to the lives and suffering of those thousands of men, women, and children who perished in the last days of Sri Lanka's civil war, whose numbers are still uncounted and who lie in unmarked graves.
I will never forget it - Garth Greenwell * author of What Belongs to You * Anuk Arudpragasam's novel is a work of furious, hypnotic beauty - honest and unsparing in its engagement with the consequences of war, and brilliantly tender and generous in its portrayal of love - Dinaw Mengestu, author * All Our Names * A closely-focused hypnotic novel of serious intensity - Romesh Gunesekera An essential book, and not just because its setting and its subject matter are essential, but because it is so awake to - in fact haunted by -elements of experience that rarely make it onto the page. Anuk Arudpragasam has written a great book. This extraordinary debut is of that class: a novel of consciousness unrelenting in its devotion to the imperiled body an exquisite, unbearably moving work of art equally alive to brutality and tenderness.
Very seldom in a reading life does a novel alter your sense not only of literature but of the world.
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