“I still had the internal, difficult moments, but they happened quickly. “I had a much better idea of how to write a book this time,” Munaweera says. “Island” was awarded the Commonwealth Regional Prize for Asia, short-listed for the Northern California Book Award and long-listed for the Man Asia Prize and the Dublin IMPAC Award.
Munaweera’s first novel, “Island of a Thousand Mirrors” (2014), similarly explored issues of abandonment, betrayal and unspeakable violence as two young Sri Lankan girls - one Sinhalese, one Tamil - experience the tropical island’s 26-year civil war from alternative perspectives.
The story told by a female narrator who remains unnamed until the book’s end chronicles a childhood trauma, suppressed memories and their monstrous aftermath. Martin’s Press $25.99, 320 pages) is set in Sri Lanka and San Francisco, two landscapes Munaweera legitimately claims as home and in which she restlessly exists as insider/outsider. The Oakland author’s second book, “What Lies Between Us” (St. It would be something to be observed - or draped around the shoulders and pulled close, like a cloak. If writer Nayomi Munaweera were to design a map as a metaphor for her latest novel, it likely would be circular in shape, mostly transparent and scored with equal parts gossamer light and bleak shadow.
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