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Sat 05 May 2008Voyaging beyond a Sri Lankan marriage
FICTION:V V GANESHANANTHAN'S first novel, Love Marriage, travels between continents, as Yalini, the central protagonist, comes to grips with her parents' Sri Lankan past and her own American present.
Such a theme of a disconnected diaspora may be the tried and tested blueprint for recent Asian novels written in English, but Ganeshananthan manages to rescue the genre with her sparse and pointed language. Yalini recognises the cultural divide that her parents had to cross when they migrated to the US, but in them she finds traces of Sri Lankan heritage very much alive.
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