Ola : Vida y recuerdos después del tsunami

On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young children in the tsunami from which she miraculously survived. In this courageous and heartbreakingly honest memoir, she describes those horrific first moments and the long road she has traveled since. A compelling, unsentimental, and beautifully balanced account: first, she struggles to cope with the initial months after the tragedy, clinging furiously to a reality she can neither face nor deny; then, over the years that follow, she recounts how she reluctantly emerges, gradually allowing her memories to transport her back to the rich and happy life she mourns, from her family home in London to the birth of her children, the year she met her husband in Cambridge, and her childhood in Colombo. All this while learning to reconcile the almost unbearable memories of her loss with the need to keep her family, in some way, alive.