V. V. Ganeshananthan

A Novel

Movement

'A heart-breaking exploration of a family fractured by civil war. This beautiful, nuanced novel follows a young doctor caught within conflicting ideologies as she tries to save lives. I couldn't put this book down' BRIT BENNETT, bestselling author of THE VANISHING HALF 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? "With immense compassion and deep moral complexity, V. V. Ganeshananthan brings us an achingly moving portrait of individual and societal grief. "I want you to understand," the narrator of BROTHERLESS NIGHT insists, and by the end of this blazingly brilliant novel, we do: that in a world full of turmoil, human connections and shared stories can teach us how - and as importantly, why - to survive" CELESTE NG, bestselling author of LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE "Stunningly great" Curtis Sittenfeld, bestselling author of RODHAM, via Twitter

Brotherless Night

Feeling trapped between the traditions of her ancestors and the modern world, Yalini, the American-born daughter of Sri Lankan immigrants, begins to understand more about love and the relationships among members of her war-torn, scattered family when she is summoned to Toronto to help care for her dying uncle, a member of the militant Tamil Tigers. A first novel. Original. 35,000 first printing.

Love Marriage

'Blazingly Brilliant' CELESTE NG

Jonathan Lethem

Steve Almond

Mary Ruefle

Edward Carey

Daniel Wallace

Caitlin Horrocks

Matthew Zapruder

Dean Young

Paul Lisicky

Rikki Ducornet

Donald Revell

Tomaz Salamun

John Hilgart

Literary fiction with elements of the fantastic, the futuristic, the surreal, and the strange.

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