Born to a wealthy family in northern Sri Lanka, Logathasan Tharmathurai and his family lost everything during the long and brutal Sri Lankan Civil War.
In January 1985, at the age of eighteen, he left his home in a desperate bid to build a new life for himself and his family abroad after a deeply traumatic encounter with a group of Sinhalese soldiers. As his terrifying and often astonishing journey unfolds, he finds himself in a refugee camp, being smuggled across international borders, living with drug dealers, and imprisoned.
The Sadness of Geography is a moving story of innocence lost, the persecution of an entire people, and the universal quest for a better life.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2019.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 954.9303/2092
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- a-ce---
- ISBN
- 9781459745032 1459745027
- LCCN
- DS489.86.T43
- LCCN Item number
- A3 2019eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- NLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (226 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00240075 (OCoLC)1120711109 (CaOOCEL)479805
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- YDX
Table of Contents
- PROLOGUE 11
- CHAPTER 1 13
- CHAPTER 2 26
- CHAPTER 3 29
- CHAPTER 4 32
- CHAPTER 5 37
- CHAPTER 6 47
- CHAPTER 7 52
- CHAPTER 8 61
- CHAPTER 9 68
- CHAPTER 10 75
- CHAPTER 11 80
- CHAPTER 12 84
- CHAPTER 13 88
- CHAPTER 14 104
- CHAPTER 15 115
- CHAPTER 16 134
- CHAPTER 17 145
- CHAPTER 18 151
- CHAPTER 19 162
- CHAPTER 20 175
- CHAPTER 21 184
- CHAPTER 22 190
- CHAPTER 23 202
- CHAPTER 24 207
- CHAPTER 25 211
- CHAPTER 26 217
- EPILOGUE 223
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 227
- Book Credits 234