Mohan Rohini
Mohan Rohini - The Seasons Of Trouble Life Amid The Ruins Of Sri Lankas Civil War - Paperback
Mohan Rohini - The Seasons Of Trouble Life Amid The Ruins Of Sri Lankas Civil War - Paperback
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Description: For three decades Sri Lanka's civil war tore communities apart. In 2009, the Sri Lankan army finally defeated the separatist Tamil Tigers guerrillas in a fierce battle that swept up about 300,000 civilians and killed more than 40,000. More than a million had been displaced by the conflict and the resilient among them still dared to hope. But the next five years changed everything. Rohini Mohan's searing account of three lives caught up in the devastation looks beyond the heroism of wartime survival to reveal the creeping violence of the everyday. When city - bred Sarva is dragged off the streets by state forces his middle - aged mother Indra searches for him through the labyrinthine Sri Lankan bureaucracy. Meanwhile Mugil a former child soldier deserts the Tigers in the thick of war to protect her family. Having survived they struggle to live as the Sri Lankan state continues to attack minority Tamils and Muslims frittering away the era of peace. Sarva flees the country losing his way and almost his life in a bid for asylum. Mugil stays breaking out of the refugee camp to rebuild her family and an ordinary life in the village she left as a girl. But in her tumultuous world desires plans and people can be snatched away in a moment. The Seasons of Trouble is a startling brutal yet beau tifully written debut from a prize - winning journal ist. It is a classic piece of reportage five years in the making and a trenchant compassionate examina tion of the corrosive effect of conflict on a people.
Title: The Seasons Of Trouble Life Amid The Ruins Of Sri Lankas Civil War
Author(s): Mohan Rohini
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781781688830
Pages: 368 Pages
Publication Date: 10/20/2015
Category: Politics & Government
Description: For three decades Sri Lanka's civil war tore communities apart. In 2009, the Sri Lankan army finally defeated the separatist Tamil Tigers guerrillas in a fierce battle that swept up about 300,000 civilians and killed more than 40,000. More than a million had been displaced by the conflict and the resilient among them still dared to hope. But the next five years changed everything. Rohini Mohan's searing account of three lives caught up in the devastation looks beyond the heroism of wartime survival to reveal the creeping violence of the everyday. When city - bred Sarva is dragged off the streets by state forces his middle - aged mother Indra searches for him through the labyrinthine Sri Lankan bureaucracy. Meanwhile Mugil a former child soldier deserts the Tigers in the thick of war to protect her family. Having survived they struggle to live as the Sri Lankan state continues to attack minority Tamils and Muslims frittering away the era of peace. Sarva flees the country losing his way and almost his life in a bid for asylum. Mugil stays breaking out of the refugee camp to rebuild her family and an ordinary life in the village she left as a girl. But in her tumultuous world desires plans and people can be snatched away in a moment. The Seasons of Trouble is a startling brutal yet beau tifully written debut from a prize - winning journal ist. It is a classic piece of reportage five years in the making and a trenchant compassionate examina tion of the corrosive effect of conflict on a people.
Title: The Seasons Of Trouble Life Amid The Ruins Of Sri Lankas Civil War
Author(s): Mohan Rohini
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781781688830
Pages: 368 Pages
Publication Date: 10/20/2015
Category: Politics & Government
