Bibliograph

Brotherless night, a novel, V.V. Ganeshananthan

Type

Label

Brotherless night, a novel, V.V. Ganeshananthan

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Brotherless night

Oclc number

1355330713

Responsibility statement

V.V. Ganeshananthan

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Jaffna, 1981. Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war tears through her home, and her dream spins off course as she sees her four beloved brothers and their friend K swept up in the mounting violence Desperate to act, Sashi accepts K's invitation to work as a medic at a field hospital for the militant Tamil Tigers, who, following years of state discrimination and violence, are fighting for a separate homeland for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority. But after the Tigers murder one of her teachers and Indian peacekeepers arrive only to commit further atrocities, Sashi begins to question where she stands. When one of her medical school professors, a Tamil feminist and dissident, invites her to join a secret project documenting human rights violations, she embarks on a dangerous path that will change her forever

Target audience

adult

Classification