Sacred Tears - Hardcover

Grigson, Roderic

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1491816619 ISBN 13: 9781491816615

Publisher: Authorhouse, 2013

Synopsis

1982 and Sami is far from home, trapped in war-torn Beirut, a city under siege by the Israelis. All he wants is to go home to his family in Sri Lanka but in order to stay alive he must learn to kill. David, a captain in the Sri Lankan army, is sent to the steamy jungles in the north of the country as punishment for an indiscretion and is thrown into the brutal insurrection by militant separatist Tamil Tigers. As civil war erupts in Sri Lanka and tears this once peaceful nation apart, David's love, the beautiful Priyani makes a difficult choice and the paths of these two men cross on opposing sides of the struggle. They must plumb the depths of their courage and question their beliefs about right and wrong. Sacred Tears, the first in a trilogy, is a powerful and evocative depiction of Sri Lanka's great beauty and recent tumultuous history. It will take you inside the story of this ancient nation and into the heart of a gripping human struggle.

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About the Author

RODERIC GRIGSON was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka where he was educated and lived till he was twenty one. With no prospects in the former British colony of Ceylon that had become a socialist state run by Sinhalese nationalists, he left the country of his birth and with ten dollars in his pocket, entered the United States on a tourist visa. He found work at the United Nations Secretariat in New York where he worked for the next twelve years. After studying information technology at New York University, he volunteered and joined the UN Peacekeeping Forces in Egypt and Lebanon, serving on the Suez Canal during the signing of the Israel Egypt Peace Treaty and in South Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War. After spending two years in the field, Rod came back to New York in 1979 and joined the fledgling UN Technological Innovations team. He spent the next seven years implementing office information systems in six languages in UN regional offices around the world. Rod migrated with his wife to Australia in the late eighties, where he became a senior executive for a global IT company. He lives in a leafy suburb in the south-east of Melbourne, pursuing his dream of being an author.

Edition details

• Publisher: Authorhouse
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1491816619
• ISBN 13: 9781491816615
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368