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An Eye for an Eye

An Eye for an Eye

by Bandula Chandraratna (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

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Synopsis

In AN EYE FOR AN EYE, Bandula Chandraratna goes back to the closed desert kingdom where his tragic story of star-crossed lovers unfolded in MIRAGE. Despite Sayeed's desperate attempts to save her, his beautiful wife Latifa is dead. Sayeed is in debt, stricken with grief and guilt. The only star on his horizon now is the small child that Latifa left behind who, though not his own, Sayeed has come quickly to love. Leila has inherited her mother's beauty and something more - a burning anger at her mother's unjust fate and a desire to make her own way in the oppressive world she finds herself in. This is Leila's story. MIRAGE emerged from 1999 Booker judging as the unexpected favourite of the chairman, Gerald Kaufman, just missing the final shortlist. With the classic simplicity that made MIRAGE so unique, Bandula Chandraratna reignites a timeless tale of innocence and evil against a savage landscape.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 181
 Edition: New
 Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 01 Aug 2002
ISBN 10: 0753813564
ISBN 13: 9780753813560
Book Overview: MIRAGE was a favourite of the Booker judges in 1999. Singled out for praise by Gerald Kaufman (Chairman of 1999 Booker judging) and chosen by 2 judges as one of their books of 1999. Just missed the final Booker shortlist 'I very much like AN EYE FOR AN EYE, a gentle, kind book about small people caught in great events. It is as good as MIRAGE, its predecessor' Doris Lessing 'This second book proves he is a born novelist of the first rank...hauntingly unforgettable' SPECTATOR 'Chandraratna is a talented writer...[he] has the ability to make the illiterate Sayeed's inner life as involving as that of any chattering, educated dinner-party-goer. If not more so' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'His superb evocation of a people riven by the changes brought by oil, money and technology, pinpoints both the psychological and the physical changes...This is a brilliant, desolate piece of writing' DAILY MAIL

Author Bio
Bandula Chandraratna has worked in hospitals in Saudi Arabia and the UK and presently lives and works in Oundle, Northamptonshire.