Undertaken chiefly as a therapeutic exercise, Wave is Deraniyagala’s account of her struggle to stay alive after life as she knew it ended on that bright Sunday morning in 2004, even as she was surrounded by those who meant the world to her. But Deraniyagala had no recollection of that. Telling them would make it too real." Years later, she would learn that she was apparently found spinning madly-“like children do when they want to get dizzy and fall". “I couldn’t tell them we had been thrown out of the jeep into that water. She couldn’t leave without her boys, she thought, though in her heart she knew that the deepest anchors of her life had been swept away in the tide. When the men spotted and came for her, Deraniyagala refused to budge. When the water receded and the rescuers came looking for survivors, Deraniyagala could hear the locals lamenting that Mahasona, “the demon of graveyards" in Sinhalese folklore, had surfaced.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |