Wave

Wave: Life and Memories After the Tsunami is a book about the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami written by Sri Lankan educator Sonali Deraniyagala. Alfred A. Knopf released it for the first time in 2013. [3] The book tells the tale of Deraniyagala's life before the tsunami and how it altered radically after the tragedy, concentrating on living without her five most essential family members, including her parents, husband, and two boys. It's written in first-person narrative form and premieres on December 26, 2004. The book won various honors and earned favorable reviews from critics.

Sonali Deraniyagala was looking for ways to commit suicide on the internet when one click led to another and she found herself staring at a news item with images of her two young boys. The youngsters had perished not long earlier, victims of Sri Lanka's 2004 tsunami, which also killed Deraniyagala's husband and parents. She managed to stay alive by hanging to a branch.

"Wave" is a thorough depiction of insanity — of being so overwhelmed by grief that existence becomes not just difficult, but scary. She remembers stabbing herself in the back with a butter knife. She couldn't look at a flower or a blade of grass without being ill with fear. Reading this book is like peering into the abyss, only instead of returning your gaze, it may engulf you whole.

Detailed information:

Author: Sonali Deraniyagala
Language: English

Genre: Memoir

Link to read: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15771862