Divided Island This

In the summer of 2009 the leader of the Tamil Tigers was killed bringing to a bloody end the stubborn and complicated civil war in Sri Lanka. For nearly thirty years it had stretched its fingers into the bustle of Colombo through Buddhist monasteries scattered across the island up the soft hills of central Sri Lanka down the curves of the eastern coast near Batticaloa and Trincomalee and over the stark hot north. Samanth Subramanian gives us an extraordinary account of this great modern conflict and the lives it changed. Taking us to the ghosts of summers past he draws out the story of Sri Lanka today-an exhausted disturbed society still caught in the embers. This Divided Island is a harrowing and humane investigation by one of India’s finest narrative journalists. About the Author Samanth Subramanian is a New Delhi-based journalist. He has written for the New Yorker New York Times Wall Street Journal Guardian Caravan Mint New Republic and Foreign Policy. His first book Following Fish Travels around the Indian Coast won the 2010 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize in India and was shortlisted for the 2013 André Simon Award in the United Kingdom. This Divided Island was shortlisted for The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2015.