Book jacket image for Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan

Random House

9780812997156

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Brotherless Night

In this moving novel, V.V. Ganeshananthan traces the human aspects of war—the physical losses and tragedies as well as the conflicts of values that are often the true battlefields.

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Review of ‘Brotherless Night’

We like our politics to be binary. It is comforting to hear that we are on the good side and other people are on the bad. But life, obviously, is not binary, and neither are our politics. In V.V. Ganeshananthan’s second novel, readers are carried to a reckoning with this fact. 

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