{"product_id":"bringing-tony-home-isbn-9781556437571","title":"Bringing Tony Home","description":"Set in the 1940s and 1960s, \u003ci\u003eBringing Tony Home \u003c\/i\u003eis a masterful modern example of a timeless genre, the \u003ci\u003ebildungsroman. \u003c\/i\u003eIn the title novella, a boy returns to his old home to find Tony, his beloved dog who was abandoned when economic circumstances forced the family to leave. “Bringing Tony Home” recounts this perilous journey in detail, movingly tracing the boy’s rescue attempts and his spiraling emotions as he endures changes occurring in his family. In “Elsewhere: Something Like a Love Story,” a young boy finds forbidden love with a schoolmate scorned for her poverty. “Elsewhere” continues their saga, touching on the bittersweet memories they share as adults, and on the woman’s increasingly precarious place in a society concerned only with status. The other stories, “Poor Young Man: A Requiem” and “Hark, The Moaning Pond: A Grandmother’s Tale,” delve into a young man’s relationship with his father as the latter’s fortunes fade, and into the now-mature man’s attempts to come to grips with the death of his grandmother and what she symbolized. Abeysekara’s ability to evoke the sights and sounds of another time and place, and his skill in rendering the inner lives of his characters, make \u003ci\u003eBringing Tony Home \u003c\/i\u003ea remarkable read.“What is wonderful is the way Abeysekara can make a whole era hang on a single strand of memory.”\u003cbr\u003e—Michael Ondaatje, Booker Prize winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe English Patient\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"These multilayered stories, worth repeat reading, make a welcome introduction to Abeysekara and his homeland.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Impressions of youth—painful lessons learned, emotions intensely experienced and adulthood broached—are reconsidered from the perspective of maturity in these long, sensuously detailed fictions.… A sophisticated jigsaw of a book, sensitively…mixing memory and history with regret and rites of passage.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBringing Tony Home\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of short stories from Tissa Abeysekara, who provokes the strange coincidences of life...highly recommended reading for fans of short fiction.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Midwest Book Review\u003c\/i\u003eTissa Abeysekara began writing fiction in his native Sinhala, Sri Lanka, in the late 1950s. Also one of the country’s most respected screenwriters and directors, he is the author of \u003ci\u003eIn My Kingdom of the Sun; The Holy Peak; Roots, Reflections and Reminiscences; \u003c\/i\u003eand other books. He lives in Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka.","brand":"North Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302754275557,"sku":"NP9781556437571","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781556437571.jpg?v=1767723089","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/bringing-tony-home-isbn-9781556437571","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}