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Brotherless Night : A Novel by Ganeshananthan, V. V. is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A courageous young Sri Lankan woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor in this “heartbreaking exploration of a family fractured by civil war” (Brit Bennett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half). “An achingly moving portrait of a world full of turmoil, but one in which human connections and shared stories can teach us how—and as importantly, why—to survive.”—Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere Jaffna, 1981. Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, 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

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Ganeshananthan, V. V.
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Published
2023
Language
EN
ISBN
9780812997163
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction
Rating
4.5 / 5 (137 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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