Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize Brave.
Brilliant.
This is a book that makes one kneel before the elegance of the human spirit and the yearning that is at the essence of every life.
-- The New York Times Book Review One of the best books I have read in years.
--Colm Toibin Two and a half decades into a devastating civil war, Sri Lanka's Tamil minority is pushed inexorably towards the coast by the advancing army.