Mosquito - Softcover

Roma Tearne, who is also an artist, was born in Sri Lanka. She completed her MA at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. She was recently awarded a fellowship in the visual arts by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of Great Britain. Mosquito is her first novel. She lives in Oxford, England.

Praise for Mosquito

"[A] beautifully crafted debut [...] Tearne captures the desperation, fear and hope of love during wartime, showing multiple sides of the human capacity for survival."
—Publishers Weekly

"With vividly rendered tropical seascapes and jungles, and populated by philosophical servants and petulant power-mongers, this novel offers a moving May-December love story set against a conflict in which the warring parties ultimately become Violence and Art."
—Kirkus

"A lovely, vividly described novel [...] set against a background of lush scenery and looming civil war."
—The Times

"Roma Tearne's novel is a heartrending story [...] the book is also about hope and survival."
—Christopher Ondaatje, The Spectator

"Flashes of true beauty, along with an impressively sustained forward drive, are enough to make Mosquito an engaging and thought-provoking novel."
—Times Literary Supplement

"Mosquito lyrically captures a country drenched both in incomparable beauty and the stink of hatred."
—The Guardian

"Anyone who has a passing interest in Sri Lanka should read this beautiful novel."
—Sunday Telegraph

"It is in this continuing agency of remembered love—presented as the colors, sounds and smells of art, in dialogue with beauty and horror—that the uplifting politics of this fine novel lies."
—The Independent

"Heartrending...readers of this powerful novel cannot fail to be moved."
—The Spectator