The Story of a Brief Marriage

"In the last months of the Sri Lankan Civil War, Dinesh's world has contracted to an evacuee camp, where he measures his days by shells that fall like clockwork. Alienated from language, home, and family, he is brought back to life by an unexpected proposal from an old man in the camp: that he marry his daughter Ganga. In the hours they spend together, Dinesh and Ganga attempt to awaken to one another, to reclaim their humanity"--