Among the secrets that Prins Ducal's mother has taken with her to the grave is the mystery of his father's "accidental death" 40 years earlier. With the help of his friend Chip, his mother's ex-lodger and confidante, Prins sets out to uncover the truth.
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Among the secrets that Prins Ducal's mother has taken with her to the grave is the mystery of his father's "accidental death" 40 years earlier. With the help of his friend Chip, his mother's ex-lodger and confidante, Prins sets out to uncover the truth.
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Good in good dust jacket. Outline: -In Romesh Gunesekera`s fine second novel the tragedy of strife-torn Sri Lanka is encapsulated in the fates of two warring families. The Sandglass begins in 1993 as the narrator Chip sits in a hotel room in Colombo worrying about Prins Ducal a friend who has gone into hiding. "In every place I have been...I seem to end up in a low-lit hotel room going over the story of Prins and Pearl--the whole Ducal family and the scheming Vatunases who seem forever coiled around them--trying to untangle the truth from the worlds I found hidden in Pearl`s battered biscuit tin the weatherproof journal of jottings Prins sent me and the orphaned fragments of my absent past." Having set up the mystery Gunesekera proceeds to unravel it slowly hopping back a few months to the death of the Ducal matriarch in her London apartment then further still to 1975 the year Chip first meets her. He has come to London from Sri Lanka to make his fortune and is staying with Pearl in Prins`s old room. It isn`t long before the widowed Pearl begins to tell her family story. "The trouble started when he got that tomfool idea into his head about owning a house" Pearl announces. "He" is her husband Jason dead for 40 years possibly murdered. The house he bought in Colombo happened to be next door to the wealthy Vatunas family and from the day the Ducals moved in they were never to have a moment of good luck. Moving back and forth in time Gunesekera slowly unfolds his tale of secrecy betrayal and loss as Prins and Chip work together to discover exactly how Jason Ducal died--and why. -> the publisher of this PAPERBACK book is Granta The date of this copy is 1999 booksalvation have grade it as Good and it will be shipped from our UK warehouse This book is from the Series. Shipping is Free for UK buyers and at a reasonable charge for buyer outside the UK.
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