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Island of a Thousand Mirrors

Nayomi Munaweera

Start date: June 15, 2015

Finish date: July 15, 2015

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Oct 15, 2019 Nadine in NY Jones rated it it was amazing

Shelves: literary-schmiterary, based-on-real-life, fiction, 100-best-of-21st-c, audio

Farther out beyond the reef, where the coral gives way to the true deep, at a certain time of day a tribe of flat silver fish gather in the thousands. To be there is to be surrounded by living shards of light. At a secret signal, all is chaos, a thousand mirrors shattering ...

This is harrowing and gut-wrenching and beautifully written. I look forward to what she writes next.

I listened to the audiobook, which was excellent, but I wish there were two different readers for the two POVs. The ch ...more

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Aug 23, 2014 Katie rated it liked it

Shelves: female-author, historical-fiction

Island of a Thousand Mirrors takes place in Sri Lanka during the civil war that began in the 1980s. It follows the stories of two families on opposite sides of the conflict. While it had all the makings of an excellent novel, somehow it fell short for me. I learned a bit about the island and history of the conflict, and the story kept me interested, but it won’t really stick with me. The characters, especially Saraswathi, the Tamil woman introduced in the second half of the book, weren’t as well ...more

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