From a literary study of the weather to the story of Caravaggio’s tennis matches, Jane Ciabattari picks the titles that should sit on your shelf this month.
Nayomi Munaweera, What Lies Between UsMunaweera’s Island of a Thousand Mirrors, winner of the Commonwealth Book Prize for Asia in 2013, is set during the civil war between the Tamil minority and Sinhalese majority in Sri Lanka. Her dark and intensely imagined new novel invokes a “smaller war” in the shadow of that greater war, enacted within the body of a young girl. After a girlhood “brimful of river swimming and schoolgirl friendship”, her life is changed by a series of mysterious incidents, leading to her father’s death. The narrator and her volatile mother flee to the US, settling in California, where she marries and has a daughter. She tells her story from within a prison cell, convicted of an “unthinkable” act. What Lies Between Us is a haunting testimony to the destructive power of childhood trauma. (Credit: St Martin’s Press)
INC News, 01/02/2016 - source: ©BBC-Culture
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