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Sonali Deraniyagala (born 1964) is a Sri Lankan memoirist and economist. [1] She serves as a lecturer in Economics at the SOAS South Asia Institute. She considers Joan Didion and Michael Ondaatje her favourite literary heroes.
Mar 5, 2013 · Sonali Deraniyagala lost her husband, two sons and parents to the Indian Ocean tsunami that claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people. Her new memoir recounts the events of that...
Mar 22, 2013 · Sonali Deraniyagala’s extraordinary memoir, “Wave,” opens on the morning of Dec. 26, 2004, as the author putters around a Sri Lankan beach-side hotel with her family. By chapter’s end she’s...
May 31, 2024 · In 2004, Sonali Deraniyagala was on vacation with her family on the coast of Sri Lanka when a tsunami struck the South Asian island. It killed her husband, their two sons and her parents, leaving Deraniyagala alone in a reality she couldn’t comprehend.
Dec 31, 2013 · Paperback – December 31, 2013. by Sonali Deraniyagala (Author) 4.1 2,895 ratings. Editors' pick Best Biographies & Memoirs. See all formats and editions. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • One woman's searing account of losing her entire family in a tsunami.
Mar 5, 2013 · Sonali Deraniyagala chronicles the agonized aftermath of the 2004 tsunami that drowned her parents, husband and two children.
In 2004, at a beach resort on the coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala and her family—parents, husband, sons—were swept away by a tsunami. Only Sonali survived to tell their tale. This is her account of the nearly incomprehensible event and its aftermath.
