Sri Lanka’s civil war up close & personal
– Deepak Narayanan Shobasakthi’s second novel, Traitor, narrates the story of Nesakumaran, the only boy in the Tamil-dominated Palmyra Palm Island — off Sri Lanka’s northern coast — who’s studying to become a priest. He, however, ends up as a child soldier for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE) instead. The story of Traitor […]
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