Journey to Jaffna - Rajes Bala

This moving andunforgettable novel, 'Journey toJaffna', is a powerful exploration of the conflicting ties of family andof the heart. Set in London, Russia and Sri Lanka, this book will find its wayinto your own heart. Param grew upin a strict Tamil family in Sri Lanka, but broke away from them to study inLondon. Even the violence facing Tamils back home could not affect the new lifehe built for himself with his English wife, Mary and their daughter. Nowthough, it is 1979, his father is dying and it is Param's duty to make thejourney back to Jaffna. As Paramlearns of the horrors his family and his ex-girlfriend Karthiga have endured,he faces his own struggle. Does he owe it to them to come back to Sri Lanka, orshould his loyalties now lie with his English family? Or does Liz, theEnglish/American woman he met on his long, disrupted journey, offer a way out?