Рома Тирн – лучшие книги

Поэтичная и драматичная история любви и потерь на фоне гражданской войны, разворачивающаяся на райском острове. Писатель Тео, пережив смерть жены, возвращается на родную Шри-Ланку в надежде обрести среди прекрасных пейзажей давно утраченный покой. Все глубже погружаясь в жизнь истерзанной страны, Тео влюбляется в родной остров, проникается его покойной и одновременно наэлектризованной атмосферой. Прогуливаясь по пустынному пляжу, он встречает юную девушку. Нулани, на глазах которой заживо сожгли отца, в деревне считается немой, она предпочитает общаться с миром посредством рисунков. Потрясенный даром девушки, Тео решает помочь ей вырваться…

When family tragedy strikes, Alice Fonseka, a dreamy, artistic child with a Singhalese mother and Tamil father, leaves the beautiful island of Sri Lanka. Unable to bear the injustice of what has happened, her family heads for England.
There, in the cold, urban landscape of London, Alice grows up, creating a life for herself, with all that this means: struggles, a home in London - and a blossoming of the art through which she expresses herself. But there is much she cannot find. Understanding. Peace. Lasting love. She has nearly given up when, unbidden, it blooms brightly.
Then on the clear summer morning of July 7, 2005, violence crosses her path again...

Forty-three year old Ria is used to being alone. As a child, her life changed forever with the death of her beloved father and since then, she has struggled to find love. That is, until she discovers the swimmer.

Ben is a young illegal immigrant from Sri Lanka who has arrived in Norfolk via Moscow. Awaiting a decision from the Home Office on his asylum application, he is discovered by Ria as he takes a daily swim in the river close to her house. He is twenty years her junior and theirs is an unconventional but deeply moving romance, defying both boundaries and cultures – and the xenophobic residents of Orford. That is, until tragedy occurs.