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Brotherless Night

'Blazingly brilliant' CELESTE NG

V. V. Ganeshananthan

14
Coup de coeur
Coup de coeur (Literature), by Niamh
Sashi needs to tell you something, now. Are you listening? Sashi needs to tell you the story of her brothers. She needs to tell you about the terrorist she is trying not to fall in love with, of her beloved community in Sri Lanka, and the violence that fractures her life into smithereens of its former self. Worthy winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024, Brotherless Night traces one young girl's experience of civil war, proving how violence warps our perceptions and priorities, and blurs our definitions of patriotism, loyalty, honour, and family.

"A heart-breaking exploration of a family fractured by civil war. This beautiful, nuanced novel follows a young doctor caught within conflicting ideologies as she tries to save lives. I couldn't put this book down" BRIT BENNETT, bestselling author of THE VANISHING HALF

Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war subsumes Sri Lanka, her dream takes her on a different path as she watches those around her, including her four beloved brothers and their best friend, get swept up in violent political ideologies and their consequences. She must ask herself: is it possible for anyone to move through life without doing harm?

"With immense compassion and deep moral complexity, V. V. Ganeshananthan brings us an achingly moving portrait of individual and societal grief. "I want you to understand," the narrator of BROTHERLESS NIGHT insists, and by the end of this blazingly brilliant novel, we do: that in a world full of turmoil, human connections and shared stories can teach us how - and as importantly, why - to survive" CELESTE NG, bestselling author of LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE

"Stunningly great" Curtis Sittenfeld, bestselling author of RODHAM, via Twitter

"a careful, vivid exploration of what's lost within a community when life and thought collapse toward binary conflict [...] a novel for our own country in this odd time" - The New Yorker

"Ganeshananthan is a superb writer...I wept at many points in this novel and I also wept when it was over" - Sunday Times

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Apr 2024
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 35 mm
ISBN: 9780241997673