Mosquito
by Roma Tearne
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Author: Roma TearneEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-07-29
ISBN: 1933372575
Number of pages: 299
Publisher: Europa Editions
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Book Review: "Mosquito" - Walkiing Through a Water Colour
Summary: 5 Stars
"...Thank you,' she said and she went, a splash of red against the sea-faded blue gate, and then through the trees, and then taking in glimses of road and bougainvillea before she disappeared from view around the bend of the hot empty road. Taking with her all the myriad, unresolved hues of the day, shimmering in the distance."
Roma Tearne is also an artist and her book "Mosquito" is crafted like a painting, a watercolour filled with dense visions of tonality,temperature and emotion. Her tale is that of a road that begins within the boundaries of an isolated backwater cottage in Sri Lanka, a garden surrounded by lush vivid green vegetation. A special love affair is in the making and there is no better place for this to grow and nourish. The love shared by Theo and Nulani is witnessed by Theo's faithful servant Sughi. It is lavishly described, contructed with care as it evolves through the black and white of written words, the vivid colours of oil paint and the dense blue-green of the Indian Ocean.
Tearne allows every wonderful detail of this private, tender relationship to slide through the humid climate of Sri Lanka but she knows that love cannot isolate itself. Theo's private garden is no longer a shield against the violent eruption of the civil war where Roma's road forces us into the ugliness of human dramma. The lush and intense colours of love are abandoned as the neutrality of grey and darkness surround the unheard cries of pain and tragedy.
If Theo's memories of Nulani allow him to live, to survive the horror of men's cruelty, what remains is a void, the emptiness of a white canvas. The tired remains of Theo's complex road that is his (and our) life leads to the safety of civilisation where the beauty of love sleeps and where the lapse of time may possibly mend the unresolved hues caused by separation and the scars of war.
".......Some say art is our greatest form of hope,'....'Perhaps it's our only hope. Living has always been a desperate business."
Thank you Roma Tearne, thank you dearly.
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