V. V. Ganeshanathan
Autor(a) de Love Marriage
About the Author
V. V. Ganeshananthan served for a year as the Writer in Residence at Phillips Exeter Academy.
Image credit: Preston Merchant
Obras por V. V. Ganeshanathan
Hippocrates (in Granta 109 - FREEMAN) 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Many Roads Through Paradise: An Anthology Of Sri Lankan Literature (translation) (2014) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Ganeshanathan, V. V.
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Locais de residência
- Michigan, USA
- Educação
- Columbia University (MA|Journalism)
University of Iowa (MFA) - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Orange Prize Long List
Washington Post Book World's Best of 2008
Membros
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 3
- Also by
- 4
- Membros
- 364
- Popularidade
- #66,014
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Críticas
- 71
- ISBN
- 19
- Línguas
- 3
In Jaffna, 1981, sixteen year old Sashi dreams of becoming a doctor. She lives with her two parents , and her brothers, Niranjan, age 25, Daylan, 19, Seelan, 17 and her younger brother , Aran , 13. The family is Tamil , and lives a happy enough life, until the civil war tears the family apart, with some of her brothers joining the Tamil Tigers ( the movement ) and one resisting. As time goes on , Sashi is accepted into medical school. A friend of hers , K, secretly brings an injured Tamil Tiger to her for treatment. She treats him, but as K says, p.158 "But you don't believe in the movement." Sashi replies "It's not safe to let you in, it's not safe to to turn you away - it's not right to let a man die in the hall of a medical school when there are supplies to help him just a metres away. What would you have me do? " From there, Sashi, very conflicted, ends up secretly serving as a medic in a field hosptial for the Tamil Tigers.
Sashi bears witness to the warring factions of the Sinhalese government, Tamil militants and the Indian government peacekeeping factions. All committed atrocities This is a difficult but compassionate read , filled with the moral complexity of this war.
Highly recommended.… (mais)