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Brotherless Night
- Narrated by: Nirmala Rajasingam
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war tears through her hometown of Jaffna, her dream takes her on a different path as she sees those around her, including her four beloved brothers and their friend, get swept up in violent political ideologies and their consequences. Desperate to act, she must ask herself: is it possible for anyone to move through life without doing harm?
Critic Reviews
"A beautiful, brilliant book - it gives an accounting of the unimaginable losses suffered by a family and by a country, but it is as tender and fierce as it is mournful. It is unafraid to look directly at the worst of the violence and erasure we have perpetrated or allowed to happen, but is insistent that we can still choose to be better." (Danielle Evans, author of The Office of Historical Corrections)
"Brotherless Night is my favorite kind of novel, one so rich and full of movement that it's only later I realize how much I have learned. V. V. Ganeshananthan drew me in from the very first line, and the intricacies of her characters' lives made it easy to stay." (Sara Novic, New York Times bestselling author of True Biz)
"With immense compassion and deep moral complexity, V. V. Ganeshananthan brings us an achingly moving portrait of individual and societal grief." (Celeste Ng, bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere)
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- Amazon Customer
- 26-06-24
Incredible and compelling story of oppression and genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka
Although based on the narrative of historical friction the story has the intimacy of a personal journal of the main protagonist Sashi and the story of her family, friends and mentors through the decades of the war for self distermination of the tamils but yet it brings the objectiveness of a journalist reporting on the trials and tribulations of ordinary civilians who were harrassed, looted, raped and killed by not only the Sri Lankan Army and the Tamil tigers but also Indian peace keeping force. The collateral damage of civilians, poignantly described, in the final stages of the war in 2009 was avoidable and something the United Nations could have perhaps prevented.
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- C.M.Mahidhara
- 21-03-23
Chilling renedition of the tamil sinhala problem
The book is a chilling rendition of the Srilankan issues over the decades, and brings up all the past memories.
The narration is superb and brings out the reality of what has transpored.
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