The Story of a Brief Marriage

From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of A Passage North Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize Winner of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature Dinesh and Ganga meet and marry in the final days of the Sri Lankan civil war. For months their lives have been pared back to the essentials: eat, sleep, survive. Now, as the army draws ever closer, they begin to explore their new and unexpected connection - a fragile light to keep the war at bay.