Brotherless Night

Sashikala Kulenthiren, a sixteen-year-old medical student in Jaffna, dreams of becoming a doctor while her four brothers and her first love are drawn into the Sri Lankan civil war. Told across two timelines — her childhood in the 1980s and her medical training in the 1990s — the novel follows her as she confronts the violence, loss, and moral compromises of a conflict that reshapes her family and her understanding of duty.