num_pages: 128
description: Assured and accomplished, Pradeep Jeganathan's long awaited debut collection of short fiction is a spare, controlled meditation on the details of inhabitation: power and inequality, friendship and enmity, love and loss, violence and its memories. The seven interconnected stories span a near thirty years of his county's recent past; each traces a delicately textured frame of troubling, telling beauty, weaving together, with almost incredible economy, not the often composed image of Sri Lanka - a paradise isle where 'only man is vile' - but a life world, live and remembered, to be lived in again.
language: English
title: At the Water's Edge
titlecomplete: At the Water's Edge
genres: Short Stories, Fiction
ratings_count: 36
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Gratiaen Prize
publisher: South Focus Press