{"product_id":"brotherless-night-9780812978278","title":"Brotherless Night","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eEditors' Choice - \u003c\/b\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Vanishing Half\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This book, a careful, vivid exploration of what's lost within a community when life and thought collapse toward binary conflict, rang softly for me as a novel for our own country in this odd time.\"--Nathan Heller, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - WINNER OF THE CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION - \u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE WOMEN\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003eS PRIZE FOR FICTION \u003c\/b\u003e- FINALIST FOR THE MINNESOTA BOOK AWARD\u003cb\u003e -\u003c\/b\u003e LONGLISTED FOR THE ASIAN PRIZE FOR FICTION \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJaffna, 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, invites her to join a secret project documenting human rights violations, she embarks on a dangerous path that will change her forever. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet during the early years of Sri Lanka's three-decade civil war, \u003ci\u003eBrotherless Night\u003c\/i\u003e is a heartrending portrait of one woman's moral journey and a testament to both the enduring impact of war and the bonds of home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eV. V. Ganeshananthan\u003c\/b\u003e (she\/her) is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eBrotherless Night \u003c\/i\u003e(a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice) and \u003ci\u003eLove Marriage\u003c\/i\u003e, which was longlisted for the Women's Prize and named one of the best books of the year by \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Nonrequired Reading\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. A former vice president of the South Asian Journalists Association, she has also served on the board of the Asian American Writers' Workshop, and is presently a member of the boards of the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies and the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota and co-hosts the \u003ci\u003eFiction\/Non\/Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e podcast on \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e, which is about the intersection of literature and the news.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House Trade","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50582177874194,"sku":"9780812978278","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_38d05124-c616-4558-aecb-28c3c0c8429b.jpg?v=1732019613","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/brotherless-night-9780812978278","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}