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Romesh GunesekeraLiterary Fiction · Fiction·b. 1954
Heaven's edge
Marc leaves London for his ancestral island, a place once beautiful but now ravaged by war and shrouded in family secrets. There, he encounters Uva, an eco-warrior, and they begin a passionate affair that is abruptly cut short when she disappears. Marc must navigate the island's dangerous underworld and ghostly colonial mansions, facing gun battles and foot races, as he searches for Uva and confronts the question of whether violence can ever lead to freedom and happiness amidst conflict.