Brotherless Night
A young woman is drawn into the Sri Lankan civil war as her brothers take up arms.
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Présentation
Sixteen-year-old Sashi dreams of becoming a doctor when civil war engulfs Sri Lanka and pulls her family apart. As her brothers are drawn toward the Tamil Tigers and violence closes in, she becomes a medic, forced to treat combatants and civilians alike while holding onto her conscience. V. V. Ganeshananthan's Brotherless Night, winner of the 2024 Women's Prize for Fiction, bears witness to the intimate and epic-scale tragedies of the conflict. Compelling, deeply moving and meticulously researched, it asks how ordinary people preserve their humanity amid terror. A landmark novel about loyalty, resistance and the cost of war.