The seasons of trouble : life amid the ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War
Mohan, Rohini2014
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Is it possible to find an ordinary life among the debris of war? Rohini Mohan's searing account of three lives caught up in the devastation shows how the war continues long after peace has been declared. While Sarva, a city-bred young man, is dragged off the streets by the police and accused of being a spy, his mother Raji attempts to search for him through the Kafkaesque Sri Lankan bureaucracy. Meanwhile, Swarna, once a child soldier, tries to rebuild her life as a mother to toddlers. Their turbulent journeys reveal the realities of day-to-day living in a region wracked by violence and mistrust.
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London : Verso, 2014.
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256 pages : illustrations
ISBN:
9781781686003 (hbk)
Dewey class:
954.93032
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English
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BRN:
2175154