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charl08
Brotherless Night: A Novel | V. V. Ganeshananthan
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I recently sent a letter to a terrorist I used to know.

#FirstLine

ChaoticMissAdventures That opening line is just so perfect! I love the intrigue in it and how it sets up the book so well. 7d
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Leniverse
Brotherless Night: A Novel | V. V. Ganeshananthan
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Pickpick

The first unequivocal pick for me from the #WomensPrize2024 #longlist
Read it and weep.
About the Sri Lankan civil war, but with a focus on family and moral dilemmas. The opening draws you in immediately, but then there is a long, slow build-up. It's worth it. The second half I could barely put the book down.
My favourite so far (but plenty to go).
#WomensPrize

BarbaraBB Great review! Looking forward to it 1w
squirrelbrain My favourite so far too. 1w
charl08 Just picked this up - looking forward to ir. 7d
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ChaoticMissAdventures
Brotherless Night: A Novel | V. V. Ganeshananthan
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Pickpick

4.5 Stars

This had me captivated from the get go, and I was squeezing in reading at every moment I could find.

A very powerful family story. I was alive during the Sri Lankan civil war but am completely ignorant of it until now.

#wpfl24
#womensprizefiction.

ChaoticMissAdventures I loved how Ganeshananthan put us into impossible situations. No one is "good" and no one completely unlovable. People do horrendous things during war, and people do amazing things during war. Sashi was a perfectly drawn charcter - strong enough to make decisions and stick to them no matter others opinions, but also relalistic in her questioning of herself, and the situations she is in.

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2w
ChaoticMissAdventures I thought the relationships were drawn with great balance - you can see how much she knows or doesn't know a person by how they are drawn in the story. We don't know the thoughts or motives of everyone, just as Sashi does not 2w
ChaoticMissAdventures My favorite from the long list so far. 2w
BarbaraBB Looking forward to this one. My favorite so far is 2w
squirrelbrain This is my favourite so far too. 1w
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squirrelbrain
Brotherless Night: A Novel | V. V. Ganeshananthan
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Pickpick

My favourite so far from the #womensprize long list. Set in Sri Lanka during the civil war, from the 1980s onwards, it follows 16 year old Sashi as she tries to train to be a doctor against a background of fear and violence.

Powerful and raw, this feels like non-fiction at times. So much so that I looked up whether the author had direct experience of the war and she hadn‘t.

The audio narration was also fantastic.

jlhammar Oh good, this is one of the handful I ordered to start with. Looking forward to it! 2w
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ChaoticMissAdventures
Brotherless Night: A Novel | V. V. Ganeshananthan
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SLowly making my way through!
I read 3 of 16 last week.

Brotherless Night is by far my favorite of what I have read so far.

I am excited to see what this week holds, staring off with Hangman and then I think Nightbloom, because I am not so excited about that one and would like to get it done (I really enjoyed her first novel, but I think the topic of this one is not going to be for me)

squirrelbrain I‘ve read 5 now (2 of which I read before the announcement). I‘m also reading 2 others - and I‘m loving Brotherless Night too. 2w
BarbaraBB I read three. I enjoyed Ordinary Human Failures a lot but this one I really LOVED: 2w
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ChaoticMissAdventures
Brotherless Night: A Novel | V. V. Ganeshananthan
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What better time to try the vegan Sri Lankan restaurant in town, then to try it while reading this #womensprize book set in Sri Lanka?
Having a blackened pork stuffed Roti and a Sri Lankan iced coffee.

Itchyfeetreader This has been on my to find / read pile for a@while. Hope you enjoy 2w
ChaoticMissAdventures @Itchyfeetreader I am really enjoying it! Compulsively readable even though the topic is heavy. 2w
charl08 Nice pairing! Looking forward to reading this one. And "compulsively readable" is exciting news. 2w
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ChaoticMissAdventures
Brotherless Night: A Novel | V. V. Ganeshananthan
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"I want you to understand: it does not matter if you cannot imagine the future. Still, relentless, it comes."

#womensprize
#WPFL24

BarbaraBB Is it good? 3w
ChaoticMissAdventures @BarbaraBB very. This is my 3rd from the list and so far the most impressive. 3w
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 3w
BarbaraBB Thanks! That‘s encouraging 3w
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jen_hayes7
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida | Shehan Karunatilaka
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Doing some #audiocrafting tonight. This book is a trip!! #huey #catsoflitsy

BookmarkTavern How cozy! ❤️ 3w
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 3w
Kitta I love their kits! 3w
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heyitsMacall
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida | Shehan Karunatilaka
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Pickpick

February book club pick: a multilayered story that follows a complex character in his journey to the afterlife. I don‘t think I‘ve read anything quite like this story and I can tell why it won the booker prize!

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Jari-chan
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida | Shehan Karunatilaka
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Pickpick

I was patiently waiting for the German translation and now finally got around to meet it. And wow, this is heavy. But I'm thankful for this book that taught me about a war I barely knew anything about. The plot itself dragged every now and then, but it's a pick only for the information I got alone. The way Karunatilaka pictures “life“ after death is hilarious. Yes, there is a good humor in this book, even though we read about devastating history.