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Brotherless Night

V. V. Ganeshananthan

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Brotherless Night won the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024 and the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. 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?

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Publisher
Random House
ISBN-13
9780241997680
Topics
Civil warFamily and loyaltyPolitical violenceComing of ageMoral complicity

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