Brotherless Night

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In the shadow of Sri Lanka’s civil war, sixteen-year-old Sashi dreams of becoming a doctor—until the conflict reshapes her hometown of Jaffna and the lives of the people she loves most. Over the course of a decade, her four brothers and their friend are drawn into competing political ideologies, and Sashi is forced to confront what those choices cost in everyday human terms. As violence closes in, she searches for a way to help without becoming another instrument of harm, asking whether innocence can survive when history demands participation. Written with V.V. Ganeshananthan’s incisive, emotionally charged storytelling, this novel explores family, moral responsibility, and the painful question of how—if at all—one can move through life without doing harm.

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