Where God Began

About the BookA BLISTERING ACCOUNT OF A YOUNG MAN IN EXILE AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF THE SRI LANKAN CIVIL WAR Suspecting that hes getting involved with the liberation movement of the Tamil Tigers at the peak of Sri Lankas civil war, Nishants parents sell their land to pay for his illegal immigration across the world to the promised safe haven of Canada. Thus begins the ordeal of a young man, who is traded from one agent to another, smuggled across or sent back from many a border, encountering on the way numerous dispossessed refugees like himself from various parts of South Asia and Africa.While much has been written about the harrowing struggles of refugees in their country of birth or in the country of asylum, Where God Began employs wry humour tempered with compassion to explore the complex realities and implications of the journey itself. A blistering account of what its like to lose ones home and history by one of Sri Lankas foremost writers.About the AuthorAPPADURAI MUTTULINGAM is a Sri Lankan Tamil author and essayist. His short stories in Tamil have received critical acclaim and won awards in both India and Sri Lanka. His first collection of short stories, Akka was published in 1964. He left Sri Lanka in 1972 and spent the next twenty-eight years working in various countries in Africa and Asia, including assignments with the World Bank and the United Nations. He began writing again in 1995, and published more than twenty-five collections of stories, essays, interviews, and a novel to critical acclaim. Most recently, his story Somewhere its Three Oclock Right Now was a finalist for the Armory Square Prize.About the translatorKAVITHA MURALIDHARAN is a bilingual journalist and translator working in Tamil and English. She has been a journalist for over twenty-five years, and has extensively covered the Sri Lankan civil war. Along with Nandini Murali, she translated Perumal Murugans Amma in 2019