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Publisher: Random House

Author: V. V. Ganeshananthan

ISBN: 9780812978278

Fiction, Historical

Brotherless Night by
V. V. Ganeshananthan

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$ 500.00 mxn

Brotherless Night by

V. V. Ganeshananthan

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"Through this moving story, Ganeshananthan traces the human aspects of war--the physical losses and tragedies as well as the conflicts of values that are often the true battlefields. . . . [She] forces the reader to discard a binary description of the world in favor of a more complex, human one."

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Summary

Jaffna, 1981. Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, a vicious civil war tears through her home, and her dream spins off course as she sees her four beloved brothers and their friend K swept up in the mounting violence. Desperate to act, Sashi accepts K’s invitation to work as a medic at a field hospital for the militant Tamil Tigers, who, following years of state discrimination and violence, are fighting for a separate homeland for Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority. But after the Tigers murder one of her teachers and Indian peacekeepers arrive only to commit further atrocities, Sashi begins to question where she stands. When one of her medical school professors, a Tamil feminist and dissident, invites her to join a secret project documenting human rights violations, she embarks on a dangerous path that will change her forever.

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John Steinbeck

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George Orwell

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