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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...

Produktbeschreibung
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...
Autorenporträt
Sharmila Seyyid is a writer, a social activist and a fearless critic of the injustices in society. She has two books of poems and this novel to her credit. Gita Subramanian, who took up translation after a long teaching career in Hong Kong, has published four translations of Tamil novels. In 2010, she won the Nalli Thisai Ettum award for the best Tamil to English translation.