Heaven's Edge

A love story, a journey back to seek the identity, the new hope - all set in the background of a war. Romesh Gunashekra tries his best to convince you about his oratory skills but he fails utterly. It shouldn't be counted as novel but as a long 230 page poem .


he story begins with a srilankan settled in london,Marc, coming back to seek his real identity and to know more about his fathers death, who was fighter pilot . His grandfather Eldon had left the place long back ago. By the way did i mention the story is set in the future, some 30 odd years from now. In the mean time he meets a young girl, Uva,an ecologist or you could call an eco warrior and falls in love with her. She becomes his new hope and a reason for new beginning. But when she is gone missing, he comes in contact with the ugly face of the war . Gunashekra tries his best to emulate the war woes through a drowsy piece of pace. i took a week and half to read it, that too wouldn't have finished if the library due hadn't come up.

Read it if you have no other book to read.