Books by V. V. Ganeshananthan
Brotherless Night: A Novel
by V. V. Ganeshananthan
🏆 Winner of the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction
“Once you’ve read this book, you’re never going to forget it. It’s absolutely searing, deeply moving. And it’s an utterly compelling piece of storytelling. There have been quite a few novels recently that have looked at the Sri Lankan civil war. This novel is unique in the way that it centres women’s experience of the war. She uses that lens of women’s experience to examine the impact on families, on the war of values that can tear families apart as much as the violence. And she’s unflinching in her commitment to complexity and nuanced and clear-eyed moral scrutiny of all sides of the conflict…It’s a novel that rewards multiple readings as well, because it’s packed with historical detail. It ranges in scale from the intimate to the epic.” Read more...
Recent Fiction Highlights: The 2024 Women’s Prize Shortlist
Monica Ali, Novelist
Interviews where books by V. V. Ganeshananthan were recommended
Award-Winning Novels of 2024, recommended by Cal Flyn
If you struggle to keep abreast of notable new novels, it can be helpful to check the consult a list of winners of recent literary awards. The juries of major prizes often wade through dozens or even hundreds of submissions when they put together their shortlists, and are therefore well placed to offer informed recommendations. Here, we’ve put together an easy to consult round-up of novels that won big literary awards in 2024.
Recent Fiction Highlights: The 2024 Women’s Prize Shortlist, recommended by Monica Ali
Each summer, the judges for the Women’s Prize for Fiction highlight the best new fiction books by female writers published over the previous twelve months. We asked Monica Ali, the acclaimed novelist and chair of this year’s jury, to talk us through the six novels that made the 2024 shortlist. See all our best novels of 2024 recommendations
