{"product_id":"a-long-watch-sunila-galappatti-9781849046404","title":"A Long Watch: War, Captivity and Return in Sri Lanka","description":"A Long Watch offers a story of human complexity amid entrenched narratives of Sri Lanka's long civil war.\u003cbr\u003ePulled from a dark ocean after a battle at sea, Commodore Boyagoda became the highest-ranking prisoner detained by the Tamil Tigers. For eight years, he lived at close quarters with his declared enemy, his imprisonment punctuated by high-level talks about his fate, but also by extended conversations with his jailers and scratch games of badminton played in jungle clearings. Throughout, he observed his captors and fellow prisoners acutely, and with discreet empathy for the lives of others undone by war.\u003cbr\u003eA memoir retold in Ajith Boyagoda's temperate voice, his is an unblinking relation of experiences difficult, moving and ironic. From going to sea, to war, imprisonment and eventual homecoming, he accepted successive realities as ordinary, in order to survive them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sunila Galappatti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1849046409\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781849046404\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hurst \u0026amp; Co.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.90d","brand":"Sunila Galappatti","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44077628031231,"sku":"9781849046404","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f8ac55f3-3934-4348-aca5-07594d327b0e.jpg?v=1685470965","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-long-watch-sunila-galappatti-9781849046404","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}