Avidya by Vidyan Ravinthiran #literature in the candlelight

in the candlelight

It will entertain you

Often considered to be the first modern novel

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‘A literary project matched in ambition only by John Updike’s Rabbit series’ FINANCIAL TIMES ‘Ford’s finely hewn prose remains an endless pleasure’ DAILY MAIL‘Ford creates a reading experience that feels truer than your own experience

Avidya by Vidyan Ravinthiran #literature in the candlelightThese poems emerged from journeys of great personal significance, and out of a migrant sensibility tied to three different countries. Sensuous, droll, yearning, they consider otherwise forgotten (ignored, repressed, erased) events. In 2017, Vidyan Ravinthiran travelled to the north of Sri Lanka where his parents grew up it finally felt safe visiting war torn Tamil areas overwritten by a tourist focus on the sun spoiled South. In 2020, he, his wife and