| View Larger Image | Mosquito | Paperbackby Roma Tearne (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Europa Editions | | Page Count: | 304 Pages | | Publication Date: | July 29, 2008 | | Sales Rank: | 192,538nd |
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Product Description
Set adrift by the recent death of his wife, Theo Samarajeeva abandons his comfortable writer’s life in London and returns to Sri Lanka, his war- torn homeland. There he meets Nulani, a talented and enigmatic young artist. An unorthodox and tenuous love blossoms between this unlikely pair. Nulani finally feels love, and Theo sees hope in his future. But when the insurgency explodes, their precarious world is torn apart. Theo is held captive and stripped of everything he once held dear. Nulani is forced into exile. As the years pass, and the poison of war spreads across this paradise, will their love be lost forever? By turns heartbreaking and uplifting, Mosquito is a first novel of remarkable beauty and compelling power. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 8 reviews)
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A painter capturing emotion by algo41 (cinnaminson, nj United States)  3 Stars
July 21, 2009
Tearne is also a painter. I haven't seen her work, but I would infer from her prose that she does plein air work with lots of short brush strokes. The prose can be wonderfully atmospheric, but sometimes it can be dull, and individual sentences are infrequently memorable.
I do not believe Tearne does enough with her female characters. Giulia wrote books, after all, but she is too much an appendage of her husband. Even Nulani is not well enough developed as a nuanced character; Sughi is more interesting. The political situation in Sri Lanka is very important to the novel, but is not very well illuminated. Tearne is more interested in capturing emotion.
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Does anyone know how to get hold of the author? by Jenita Dyer (Bermuda)  5 Stars
June 25, 2009
My book club loves this book and we want to speak with the author!! Please help us find her! Thanks
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Deeply moving by Sarah Azia (Birmingham, UK) 5 Stars
April 05, 2009
I was moved to tears by this novel. Roma Tearne, thank you for this amazing story.
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An amazing read that will bring you into another world by Cheyenne (Fog City, CA) 5 Stars
April 04, 2009
Probably few people are aware of the tortured history of Sri Lanka which forms the backdrop for this incredibly impressive novel. The author treats the characters with great respect, and is able to accommodate multiple points of view from it's protagonist, Theo Saramajeeva, to the young girl that he develops a great affection for. This book is full of emotion but it is neither corny nor overly-dramatic. The author very effectively manages the narrative, with superb but also concise descriptive language. Excellent.
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A must read by Andrew (Washington, D.C.) 5 Stars
December 23, 2008
I will skip the summary, because you can find that elsewhere...this book's strength comes from the emotions - love and sorrow and hope - that it successfully evokes in the reader without being trite, overly cliched (though the girl reminded me of every beautiful Indian woman I've ever met), or reliant on deus ex machina manipulations (or karma, as I suspect the characters would call it). I would hate for the book to be type-cast as a romance or a Sri Lankan novel or a war novel, because it offers so much about universal humanity. That said, the book puts a human face on a conflict that makes little sense to Westerners (for good and bad reasons). Whatever Ms. Tearne will paint or write, she can be satisfied that she has written an astounding book (and one I'm buying to give to friends!) that will last for a long time (and as an artist myself, I could only hope for so much!). If you have ever loved anything or anyone from this part of the world, this is a great way to have one more small piece of understanding.
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