Description
V.V. Ganeshananthan's luminous, heartbreaking novel—following a Tamil girl through the Sri Lankan civil war as she tries to understand why her four brothers have all chosen different paths in the conflict—is one of the most formally accomplished and most morally serious works of fiction about the Tamil experience of the war. Written with the historical authority and the genuine compassion for all the people she is writing about that make genuinely important war fiction so valuable and so rare, this is essential reading for every person who wants to understand Sri Lanka's civil war through the most honest and the most human form available. A masterpiece of its kind.
