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ISBN | 9789352779017 |
Format | PaperBack |
Language | English |
Year of Publication | 2018 |
Bib. Info | vii, 352p. ; 22 cm. |
Categories | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
Product Weight | 370 gms. |
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Spanning the three decades of the deadly Sri Lankan civil war, Ummath highlights the plight of women across communal and ethnic divides. Through the lives of three women, Thawakkul, Yoga and Theivanai one a social activist, the other a Tamil Tiger forced into joining the movement as a child, and the third a disillusioned fighter for the Eelam the novel lays bare the complex equations that ruled life in Sri Lankan society during and in the aftermath of the civil war.