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Brotherless Night

Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024

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Brotherless Night

Yazan: V. V. Ganeshananthan
Seslendiren: Nirmala Rajasingam
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WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024

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

'A masterpiece of historical fiction' MONICA ALI, chair of judges for the Women's Prize for Fiction

'An unforgettable account of a country and a family coming undone… Brotherless Night is a spectacular work of historical fiction' Guardian

'A heartbreaking exploration of a family fractured by civil war' BRIT BENNETT, bestselling author of THE VANISHING HALF

'Blazingly brilliant' CELESTE NG, bestselling author of LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE

'Stunningly great' Curtis Sittenfeld, bestselling author of ROMANTIC COMEDY, via Twitter

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


WINNER OF THE CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION

©2023 V. V. Ganeshananthan (P)2023 Penguin Audio

 Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Kurgu Literary Fiction Political Women's Fiction World Literature Düşündürücü Samimi İlham verici Aşırı duygusal
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Brotherless Night is a brilliant, compelling and deeply moving novel that bears witness to the intimate and epic-scale tragedies of the Sri Lankan civil war. In rich, evocative prose, Ganeshananthan creates a vivid sense of time and place and an indelible cast of characters. Her commitment to complexity and clear-eyed moral scrutiny combines with spellbinding storytelling to render Brotherless Night a masterpiece of historical fiction. (Monica Ali, chair of judges for the Women's Prize for Fiction)
V.V. Ganeshananthan's novel Brotherless Night reveals the moral nuances of violence, ever belied by black-and-white terminology
A beautiful, brilliant book... tender and fierce as it is mournful. It is unafraid to look directly at the worst of the violence and erasure we have perpetrated or allowed to happen, but is insistent that we can still choose to be better (Danielle Evans, author of The Office of Historical Corrections)
Riveting, heartbreaking and extraordinary for both its empathetic gaze and its clear-eyed depiction of the brutality of war, Brotherless Night is a masterpiece
Visceral, historical, emotional, it is 300 pages of must-read (Women's Prize judge Anna Whitehouse)
Brotherless Night is my favorite kind of novel, one so rich and full of movement that it's only later I realize how much I have learned. V. V. Ganeshananthan drew me in from the very first line, and the intricacies of her characters' lives made it easy to stay (Sara Novic, New York Times bestselling author of TRUE BIZ)
Prepare to have your heart well and truly pummelled by this searing story about a young Tamil woman growing up as the Sri Lankan civil war explodes around her . . . at times, it's hard to remember that this rich and nuanced novel isn't actually a memoir - so convincing is Sashi's voice and so compelling her story
A devastating look at the cost of war and choosing sides
Moving and rapturous... equal parts heartbreak and rage, unravelling the tragedy of Sri Lanka's civil war with a family saga of violence, loss, impossible choices and astounding courage (Shehan Karunatilaka, Booker Prize-winning author of The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida)
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.
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The narrator does a fantastic job telling this traumatic story which is more like nonfiction at times. Although only 13 hours it’s a tough listen.

Horrible History

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One of the best books I’ve read. As a Sri Lankan, daughter of a surgeon, so much of this resonated with me. So much I would like to speak about it and explore deeper and this book brought to life things we couldn’t speak about for a long time.

What an incredible emotional experience this was. Life changing!

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Captivating story that engaged my interest from start to finish, and was beautifully read and narrated

Compelling and heartbreaking story

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Told very honestly and opened my eyes to a period of history and place I knew little about.

Eye opening

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This novel is very closely based on the facts of the Sri Lankan civil war which I knew virtually nothing about. It is narrated by a Tamil woman who was a young girl at the beginning of the war.

It's written in quite a straightforward and matter of fact style which took a while to get into but that is one of the things that makes it so brilliant and moving. It avoids gory details of violence and sentimentality which a lesser author might be tempted to do. It focuses on the results of the violence on ordinary people who are not powerful but are caught in the middle of power struggles between 3 group - the Sri Lankan Government, the Tamil Tigers and the Indian 'peacekeepers'.

The book also exposes that there is no simple good and bad as the Tamil Tigers, supposedly fighting for freedom are as cruel as the government they are fighting and the Indian 'peacekeepers' are also cruel and violent. It powerfully explores, too, the terrible decisions ordinary people have to make to survive when that can involve making moral compromises just to survive. And the consequences for the few, incredibly brave people who do take a stand against the violence and try to document the abuses. The straightforward narrative means that this isn't overwhelming although it's a tough listen but a very rewarding one.

Although set in the Sri Lankan civil war, it's probably also what happens in most wars so has much wider significance. Highly recommend.

Brilliant and moving book

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