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
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241611043Number of pages: 368Weight: 460 gDimensions: 220 x 138 x 40 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'V.V. Ganeshananthan's novel Brotherless Night reveals the moral nuances of violence,ever belied by black-and-white terminology... perhaps Ganeshananthan's finest achievement is showing,with meticulous accuracy,what it feels like to inhabit a day-to-day life onto which someone else,from the privilege of great distance,can throw a word like "terrorism," and be done'- The New York Times
'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
'Prepare to have your heart well and truly pummelled by this searing story about a young Tamil woman growing up as the Sri Lankan civil war explodes around her... at times,it's hard to remember that this rich and nuanced novel isn't actually a memoir - so convincing is Sashi's voice and so compelling her story'- Bookseller
Kommentar