{"product_id":"this-divided-island-by-samanth-subramanian-9780857895974","title":"This Divided Island","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 2009, the leader of the dreaded Tamil Tiger guerrillas was killed, bringing to a bloody end the stubborn and complicated civil war in Sri Lanka. For nearly thirty years, the war's fingers had reached everywhere: into the bustle of Colombo, the Buddhist monasteries scattered across the island, the soft hills of central Sri Lanka, the curves of the eastern coast near Batticaloa and Trincomalee, and the stark, hot north. With its genius for brutality, the war left few places, and fewer people, untouched.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat happens to the texture of life in a country that endures such bitter conflict? What happens to the country's soul? Samanth Subramanian gives us an extraordinary account of the Sri Lankan war and the lives it changed. Taking us to the ghosts of summers past, and to other battles from other times, he draws out the story of Sri Lanka today – an exhausted, disturbed society, still hot from the embers of the war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough travels and conversations, he examines how people reconcile themselves to violence, how religion and state conspire, how the powerful become cruel, and how victory can be put to the task of reshaping memory and burying histories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis Divided Island\u003c\/i\u003e is a harrowing and humane investigation of a country still inflamed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46851704455404,"sku":"9780857895974","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11885273482493.jpg?v=1759120796","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/this-divided-island-by-samanth-subramanian-9780857895974","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}