Omg. Just dropped in here because I felt like I hadn't kept up with your posts of late. And it feels almost serendipitous because I am currently reading Brotherless Night and bawling my eyes out, (in public, in a cafe, tube, wherever I happen to be also) and was thinking of how little I knew of the civil war in Sri Lanka. It was described so bloodlessly somehow in our class X pol sc textbooks, which is embarassingly, the last time time I probably thought of it. I have a feeling I always thought of civil wars as somehow more "civil", because of that wording. Might read this one now, though idk if I have the stomach for it.
Let's both read the other's reco next year because I don't think either of us can stomach another book on the subject. But you're right- I also can't believe I knew so little about the war even though it ended only around 10th boards!
Omg. Just dropped in here because I felt like I hadn't kept up with your posts of late. And it feels almost serendipitous because I am currently reading Brotherless Night and bawling my eyes out, (in public, in a cafe, tube, wherever I happen to be also) and was thinking of how little I knew of the civil war in Sri Lanka. It was described so bloodlessly somehow in our class X pol sc textbooks, which is embarassingly, the last time time I probably thought of it. I have a feeling I always thought of civil wars as somehow more "civil", because of that wording. Might read this one now, though idk if I have the stomach for it.
Let's both read the other's reco next year because I don't think either of us can stomach another book on the subject. But you're right- I also can't believe I knew so little about the war even though it ended only around 10th boards!