TY - BOOK AU - Pradeep Jeganathan AU - Pradeep Jeganathan. TI - At the water's edge SN - 9780974883908 U1 - 813.6 JEG PY - 2004/// CY - New York PB - : South Focus Press KW - Literature KW - American fiction in English N1 - The front row -- The watch -- The street -- Sri Lanka -- The train from Batticoloa -- A man from Jaffna -- At the water's edge N2 - Assured and accomplished, Pradeep Jeganathan's long awaited debut collection of short fiction is a spare, controlled meditation on the details of inhabitation: power and inequality, friendship and enmity, love and loss, violence and its memories. The seven interconnected stories span a near thirty years of his county's recent past; each traces a delicately textured frame of troubling, telling beauty, weaving together, with almost incredible economy, not the often composed image of Sri Lanka - a paradise isle where 'only man is vile' - but a life world, live and remembered, to be lived in again ER -