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Brotherless Night
Recorded edition: Penguin Books, Limited · 2023 · ISBN 0241611040 · Edition source
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Brotherless Night centres on Sashi, a sixteen-year-old who hopes to become a doctor during Sri Lanka’s civil war. Her brothers and her first love become involved with the Tamil Tigers. V.
V. Ganeshananthan’s coming-of-age novel, published in 2023, places Sashi’s ambitions alongside the conflict affecting the people closest to her.
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