![]() ![]() Munaweera is a beautiful writer, and never lets her protagonists become representatives of a group or movement. The second, Saraswathi, becomes a Tamil Tiger rebel after being gang-raped and nearly killed by Sinhalese soldiers. ![]() The first, Yasodhara, who is Sinhalese, is able to flee to Los Angeles with her family, just as Munaweera herself did at age 12. ![]() Most important of all, it tells the story of two women caught up in that awful drama. Not only does this novel open the door to that terrible but not terribly well-known history, but it will make you want to know more about beautiful, blood-soaked Sri Lanka. This beautiful, heartbreaking debut novel is completely arresting, both as the story of two young women whose lives take different paths that circle back to each other, and as a history of Sri Lanka's bloody, barbaric civil war, which ended (for now) in 2009 after the ethnic Sinhalese rulers crushed their fierce rivals, the rebels of the ethnic Tamil minority.Įach side treated the other with shocking brutality, torturing and slaughtering tens of thousands of civilians. ![]()
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