{"product_id":"when-sirens-beckon-1","title":"When Sirens Beckon","description":"\u003cp\u003eMartin James has spent forty years perfecting the art of leaving Sri Lanka behind. A successful realtor in small-town Ontario, he has built a new family, a comfortable life, and a careful distance from the country that shaped and scarred him. But when his daughter's wedding brings him back to Colombo in April 2019, he finds a place caught between its old wounds and new ones — the civil war over, but the hatreds merely rearranged.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen the Easter Sunday bombings shatter everything he came to celebrate, Martin is left with two urns, a grief he cannot metabolise, and a conscience he cannot quiet. Back in Canada, his business collapses around him. In Sri Lanka, the son of his closest friend is disappearing into radicalization. And a powerful politician with blood on his hands is about to become president.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMartin knows he should stay home. He has always been better at surviving than at saving anyone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe goes back anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhen Sirens Beckon\u003c\/em\u003e is a rich, morally urgent novel about the price of belonging — to a country, a family, and an idea of who you might have been. Set against the real events of the 2019 Sri Lankan Easter bombings, it asks whether a man who spent a lifetime running from his past can find redemption by running toward someone else's future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Don't forget to dream,\" Martin tells his new daughter-in-law as she prepares to cross the world to safety. It is the most hopeful thing he has ever said. It is also the last.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":47192693375186,"sku":"3eb0e63d-5022-3ec7-89fd-cd0f6d28de75","price":8.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47251489751250,"sku":"9781998494392","price":29.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/image_d4c611be-1b23-473d-a797-157de608506f.jpg?v=1785088932","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/products\/when-sirens-beckon-1","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}