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   Sonali Deraniyagala (born 1964) is a Sri Lankan memoirist and economist. She serves as a lecturer in Economics at the SOAS South Asia Institute. She considers Joan Didion and Michael Ondaatje her favourite literary heroes. Personal life. She was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, to lawyer (Justin) Edward Pieris Deraniyagala and Gemini Deraniyagala.

   • Children: 2

   • Occupation(s): Economist, memoirist

2. www.npr.org › 2013/03/05 › 173419255Interview: Sonali Deraniyagala, Author Of 'Wave' : NPR

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   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 fateful day.

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   Mar 22, 2013 · By Cheryl Strayed. March 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...

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5. www.npr.org › 2013/02/19 › 172014547Exclusive First Read: 'Wave' By Sonali Deraniyagala : NPR

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   Feb 19, 2013 · Economist Sonali Deraniyagala lost her husband, parents and two sons in the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. Wave is her searing, unflinching account of learning to live with that loss, and of allowing...

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   Wave is a book by Sonali Deraniyagala, a Sri Lankan memoirist and economist, who lost her family and survived the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The book chronicles her grief, recovery, and memories of her life before and after the disaster.

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   • Author: Sonali Deraniyagala

7. www.nytimes.com › wave-by-sonali-deraniyagala‘Wave,’ by Sonali Deraniyagala - The New York Times

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   Mar 5, 2013 · March 5, 2013. “This is the saddest story I have ever heard.” So goes the first sentence of Ford Madox Ford’s 1915 masterpiece, “The Good Soldier.” It’s a sentence that may spin in your mind while...

8. www.penguinrandomhouse.com › books › 223103Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala: 9780345804310 ...

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   By Sonali Deraniyagala Read by Hannah Curtis. Best Seller. Category: Biography & Memoir | Science & Technology | Audiobooks. Paperback $18.00. Dec 31, 2013| ISBN 9780345804310. Buy. Ebook $12.99. Mar 05, 2013| ISBN 9780307962706. Buy. Audiobook Download $17.50. Mar 05, 2013| 325 Minutes. Buy. All Formats. +. Paperback$18.00.

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   Who is Sonali Deraniyagala?

   • Sonali Deraniyagala (born 1964) is a Sri Lankan memoirist and economist. She serves as a lecturer in Economics at the SOAS South Asia Institute. She considers Joan Didion and Michael Ondaatje her favourite literary heroes. She was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, to lawyer (Justin) Edward Pieris Deraniyagala and Gemini Deraniyagala.

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   How does Sonali Deraniyagala feel about her family?

   • Deraniyagala says there is no resolution to the grief she feels. But in writing about her family she feels she has memorialized them, and in a way that has brought them back to life again. Sonali Deraniyagala lost her husband, two sons and parents to the Indian Ocean tsunami that claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people.

   Interview: Sonali Deraniyagala, Author Of 'Wave' : NPR

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   Where did Deraniyagala revise her parents?

   • In this scene, Deraniyagala revists both the house of her parents in Colombo, which has been emptied and closed up since the tsunami, and Yala National Park, where she was when the wave struck. Wave will be published March 5. Sri Lanka, July – December 2005 Someone had removed the brass plate with my father's name on it from the gray front wall.

   Exclusive First Read: 'Wave' By Sonali Deraniyagala : NPR

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   Where does Deraniyagala live today?

   • Today, Deraniyagala lives in New York. She says when she first moved there, she sublet an apartment in Greenwich Village for three months; five years later, she's still there. She never meant to live in New York; it happened almost by accident, she says, and so did her book.

   Interview: Sonali Deraniyagala, Author Of 'Wave' : NPR

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