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...has been widely exhibited. Bone China is her second book and is a very enjoyable and moving story, following four generations of the de Silva family, from the 1930's onwards. The de Silva's are a Tamil family living in Ceylon, or Sri Lanka as it was. Grace is the family matriarch to a somewhat dysfunctional family and is the link that bonds all the characters of the book. Grace was born into a rich land owning family but she marries Aloysius for ... ...daughter Anna-Meeka. Maybe this bone china, which carries with it many memories, can be seen as some form of metaphor for the de Silva family… it is fragile, delicate and breakable, yet resilient and enduring.
This is a book that deals with a whole roller coaster of emotions - political conflict, love and loss, emigration/immigration, cultural identity and the anxieties of parenthood. I thoroughly enjoyed reading Bone China and will definitely look ...
perfectlypolished 14.04.2008
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