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Noontide Toll

Full title: Noontide Toll
ISBN: 9780670087297
ISBN 10: 0670087297
Authors: Romesh Gunesekera
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Num. pages: 299
Binding: Hardcover
Language: en
Published on: 2014

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Synopsis

The Driver's Job Is To Stay In Control Behind The Wheel And That Is All. The Past Is What You Leave As You Go. There Is Nothing More To It. Vasantha Retired Early, Bought Himself A Van With His Savings, And Now Works As A Driver For Hire. As He Drives Through Sri Lanka, Carrying Aid Workers, Businessmen And Families, Meeting Lonely Soldiers And Eager Hoteliers, He Engages Them With Self-deprecating Wit And Folksy Wisdom, And Reveals For Us Their Uncertain, Difficult Lives. On His Journey From The Army Camps In Northern Jaffna To The Moonlit Ramparts Of Galle, In The South, He Begins To Discover The Depth Of The Problems Of The Past--his Own And His Country's--and The Promise The Future Might Hold.