A review by theinkwyrm
Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan

5.0

This novel is a work of art. It deals with a challenging subject in a masterful and compelling way and the writing is compulsively readable (I literally stayed up hours past when I’d normally go to sleep because I couldn’t put it down and I don’t do that with many books). I love how the author writes unapologetically about the Tamil and Sri Lankan peoples in a way that is still comprehensible to someone (aka me) who knows next to nothing about them prior to reading this. I am also very impressed with how she writes about this civil war in a way that encompasses the intimate details of one family and the broader movements of people groups, organizations, and even countries in a way that isn’t confusing while also bringing in issues of racial inequality, feminism, and the discrimination of the caste system along with all the atrocities of war. An absolute masterpiece.