(Eng) Brotherless Night: Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024 / V. V. Ganeshananthan / Penguin

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024

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

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?

'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

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Review
When we return to New York two decades later we've begun to understand how the Tamil 'terrorists' defy this label as much as any other. Ganeshanathan triumphs in her portrait of them as complex individuals - 'people you might know or love' ― Spectator

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. ― New Yorker

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

Stunningly great -- Curtis Sittenfeld, bestselling author of RODHAM, via Twitter

A beautifully written story of resilience, loss, human connection and survival amidst the complexities and violence of war ― Ms Magazine

A remarkable unflinching novel that delicately, with surgical precision, exposes the deep wound at the heart of a long cruel war -- Romesh Gunesekera, author of Reef

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

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About the author
V. V. Ganeshananthan is the author of Brotherless Night and Love Marriage, which was longlisted for the Women's Prize and named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post. Her work has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading, among other publications. 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 board of directors 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 Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast on Literary Hub, which is about the intersection of literature and the news.

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Brotherless Night: Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024
V. V. Ganeshananthan
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN13 ‏ : ‎ 9780241997673
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 2.21 x 12.7 x 22 cm