{"title":"V. V. Ganeshananthan","description":"V. V. Ganeshananthan (she\/her) is the author of the novels Brotherless Night (a New York Times Editors' Choice) and Love Marriage, which was longlisted for the Women's Prize and named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post. Her work has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading, among others. A former vice president of the South Asian Journalists Association, she has also served on the board of the Asian American Writers' Workshop, and is presently a member of the boards of the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies and the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota and co-hosts the Fiction\/Non\/Fiction podcast on Literary Hub, which is about the intersection of literature and the news.","products":[{"product_id":"love-marriage-paperback","title":"Love Marriage - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this globe-scattered Sri Lankan family, we speak of only two kinds of marriage. The first is the Arranged Marriage. The second is the Love Marriage. In reality, there is a whole spectrum in between, but most of us spend years running away from the first toward the second.  p. 3] \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe daughter of Sri Lankan immigrants who left their collapsing country and married in America, Yalini finds herself caught between the traditions of her ancestors and the lure of her own modern world. But when she is summoned to Toronto to help care for her dying uncle, Kumaran, a former member of the militant Tamil Tigers, Yalini is forced to see that violence is not a relic of the Sri Lankan past, but very much a part of her Western present. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile Kumaran's loved ones gather around him to say goodbye, Yalini traces her family's roots-and the conflicts facing them as ethnic Tamils-through a series of marriages. Now, as Kumaran's death and his daughter's politically motivated nuptials edge closer, Yalini must decide where she stands. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLyrical and innovative, V. V. Ganeshananthan's novel brilliantly unfolds how generations of struggle both form and fractures families. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eLove Marriage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A beautiful first novel. This intricately woven tale, with its universal themes of love and estrangement, presents an exciting new voice in American literature.\" \u003cbr\u003e-Yiyun Li, author of \u003ci\u003eA Thousand Years of Good Prayers\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Complex and moving . . . an impressive debut.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Daniel Alarc n, author of \u003ci\u003eLost City Radio \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"V. V. Ganeshananthan has given us a riveting picture of the intersections of love and war that shape us all. A debut of incredible passion and wisdom.\" \u003cbr\u003e-Rebecca Johns, author of \u003ci\u003eIcebergs\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"At its best and simplest, Ganeshananthan can be profoundly moving. She captures the pain of exile poignantly.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ganeshananthan has created a slow-burning and beautifully written debut in Love Marriage. It is an evocative examination of Sri Lankan cultural mores, and the way one family is affected by love and war\" -- \u003ci\u003eThe Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Poignant and authentic.... Insight gained into Toronto's Tamil community is a welcome bonus in this gem of a book by a young writer who is sure to present more thought-provoking, entertaining prose in the future.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Toronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The book is at times witty and always beautifully written\" -- \u003ci\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Innovative....this is an ambitious family drama about an underreported part of the world, filled with well-shaded characters  and] gorgeous flourish...Buy it.\" -- \u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"As if she were stringing a necklace of bright beads, the author relates the stories of Yalini's Sri Lankan forebears in lapidary folkloric narratives...What she does here, she does quite affectingly.\" -- \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"In spare, lyrical prose, V.V. Ganeshananthan's debut novel tells the story of two Sri Lankan Tamil families over four generations who, despite civil war and displacement, are irrevocably joined by marriage and tradition....Powerful.\" -- \u003ci\u003eMs. Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104834916575,"sku":"9781400066698","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/DI5DWhflI79781400066698.webp?v=1781111414"},{"product_id":"brotherless-night-paperback","title":"Brotherless Night - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eEditors' Choice - \u003c\/b\u003eA courageous young Sri Lankan woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor in this \"heartbreaking exploration of a family fractured by civil war\" (Brit Bennett, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Vanishing Half\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This book, a careful, vivid exploration of what's lost within a community when life and thought collapse toward binary conflict, rang softly for me as a novel for our own country in this odd time.\"--Nathan Heller, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - FINALIST FOR THE MINNESOTA BOOK AWARD - LONGLISTED FOR THE ASIAN PRIZE FOR FICTION\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJaffna, 1981. Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, a vicious civil war tears through her home, and her dream spins off course as she sees her four beloved brothers and their friend K swept up in the mounting violence. Desperate to act, Sashi accepts K's invitation to work as a medic at a field hospital for the militant Tamil Tigers, who, following years of state discrimination and violence, are fighting for a separate homeland for Sri Lanka's Tamil minority. But after the Tigers murder one of her teachers and Indian peacekeepers arrive only to commit further atrocities, Sashi begins to question where she stands. When one of her medical school professors, a Tamil feminist and dissident, invites her to join a secret project documenting human rights violations, she embarks on a dangerous path that will change her forever. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet during the early years of Sri Lanka's three-decade civil war, \u003ci\u003eBrotherless Night\u003c\/i\u003e is a heartrending portrait of one woman's moral journey and a testament to both the enduring impact of war and the bonds of home.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104866635999,"sku":"9780812978278","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/BYyPa3jvGC9780812978278.webp?v=1781111482"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/v-v-ganeshananthan.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}