Anuk Arudpragasam

Mesmerizing, political, intimate, unafraid - this is a superb novel, a novel that pays such close, intelligent attention to the world we all live in - Sunjeev Sahota, author of the Booker shortlisted The Year of the Runaways One senses, reading his two extraordinary novels, a new mastery coming into being - Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs To You...

Dinesh is a young man trapped on the frontlines between the Sri Lankan army and the Tamil Tigers. Desensitised to the horror all around him, life has been pared back to the essentials: eat, sleep, survive. All this changes when he is approached one morning by an older man who asks him to marry his daughter Ganga, hoping that victorious...