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The third novel in the quintet depicts the lives of the people in the Tamil areas of Sri Lanka. A time of people leaving, police and army repression, bombs falling indiscriminately, people taken away never to return. "The reality of their circumstances had drained their lives of colour. It was a time when everyday stabbings, deaths, and shattered limbs were becoming a part of their story. Death swooped before their eyes, randomly snatched peop...

The final and shortest novel of the quintet is a coda that brings together several of its displaced characters in unexpected ways. The noble monk Sankarananda Thero meets a tragic end, but he remains an inspiration for Thiravi, who finds the direction he has been searching for for years. Suthan reunites with his mother and sister briefly in India, but their relationships remain strained. Thiyagu's mind begins to clear as he takes on new respon...

Set in the years between 1995 and 2000, the fourth novel in the quintet follows the lives of the families scattered from the island of Nainativu across the world. Arasi redoubles her efforts to find the forcibly disappeared poet Rakini, and finds allies in the feminist groups advocating for human rights in Sri Lanka. In France, Suthan contributes to the formation of an international network of Tamils mobilizing for the struggle back home, even...

A Time of Questions is the second volume of the quintet, Prison of Dreams, depicting the growth of the Tamil armed struggle in 1980s Sri Lanka. The five novels together describe the Sinhala-Tamil ethnic conflict, the hard choices faced by the minority communities subject to pogroms and oppressive laws, and the sufferings and exiles of simple villagers as the conflict finally flares up into a full-fledged and bloody civil war. A Time of Questio...

His Sacred Army is the first volume of the quintet, Prison of Dreams, depicting the growth of the Tamil armed struggle in 1980s Sri Lanka. The five novels together describe the Sinhala-Tamil ethnic conflict, the hard choices faced by the minority communities subject to pogroms and oppressive laws, and the sufferings and exiles of simple villagers as the conflict finally flares up into a full-fledged and bloody civil war. His Sacred Army centre...