V. V. Ganeshananthan's Desert Island Books

Including a baggy, joyful monster of a book, and one without a single bad sentence...

This week’s Desert Island Books guest is the wonderful V. V. ‘Sugi’ Ganeshananthan. In June, she won this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction for her brilliant novel, Brotherless Night. Also named a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, and crowned the winner of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, Brotherless Night is a blistering and blazing story of a young Tamil woman living through the Sri Lankan civil war—and well deserving of its many accolades. I’ve told many-a friend to read it, and it’s the sort of story that will stay with you long after you’ve finished the final page.

You can buy Brotherless Night from Bookshop.org, but if you fancy getting your hands on a copy of it, why not consider becoming a paid subscriber of my Substack? Each week, you’ll be automatically entered into a draw to win a book by the guest from my Desert Island Books series.