The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War
Rohini Mohan
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Description for The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War
Paperback. An unforgettable account of the scars of a long war, and the prolonged mayhem of the postwar peace Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKS; HBJF; HBLX; HBWS; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 196 x 32. Weight in Grams: 408.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
405g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781688830
SKU
V9781781688830
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Ref
99-1
About Rohini Mohan
ROHINI MOHAN is a prize-winning political journalist based in Bangalore, India. She has an MA in Political Journalism from Columbia University, New York, where she was a 2009-2010 Presidential Fellow. She has won prestigious awards for her work, including the Charles Wallace Fellowship 2013, London; the ICRC Humanitarian Reporting Award 2012, New Delhi; the Sanskriti-Prabha Dutt Fellowship 2012, New Delhi; ... Read more
Reviews for The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War
[P]oetic ... a thoroughly absorbing book. Economist The Seasons of Trouble is devastatingly good. Rohini Mohan's intimately rendered account of the brutal end-game and unfinished aftermath of Sri Lanka's civil war is breathtakingly well-told. By focusing on the lives of three Tamils and telling their stories in novelistic detail, Mohan has revealed a modern tragedy of truly epic ... Read more