'In this globe-scattered Sri Lankan family,
we speak only of two kinds of marriage. The first is the Arranged
Marriage. The second is the Love Marriage. In reality, there is a whole
spectrum in between, but most of us spend years running away from the
first towards the second. 'Among the categories that
bleed outside these two carefully delineated boundaries: the
Self-Arranged Marriage, the Outside Marriage, the Cousin Marriage, the
Village Marriage, the Marriage Abroad. there is the Marriage Without
Consent. There is the Marriage Under Pressure. There is even Marrying
the Enemy, who, it turns out, is not the Enemy at all.'
Reverse a family tree and branches of blood are whittled down to one
person - in this case, the young female narrator, Yalini - composed of
all the women and men who came before her; the result of many marriages.
Parents want nothing more than to prevent their children from
colliding with inevitability: that in a different world, there is a
different kind of marriage. Yet Tamil and Sinhalese parents -
particularly after the great ethnic violence in Sri Lanka in 1983 -
watch helplessly as their children cut themselves free of the need to
please their ancestors. They walked out of the country to give their
children opportunity, but this was not the opportunity they intended
them to take: Western marriage. For Yalini and her
generation, they are the children of their parents, but have entered
other countries in which the rules of marriage - Love Marriage, Arranged
Marriage, and all that lies in between - dramatically do not apply.
Book Detail
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Publication Date
- 30/11/-0001
- Number of Pages
- 320
- Binding
- Paper Back
- ISBN
- 9780753825549
- Category
-
Fiction , Literature
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