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.