This Divided Island is a monument to the 26-year conflict that ravaged Sri Lanka, leaving nearly 100,000 dead and a country exhausted, disturbed, and still hot from the embers of war. Through travels and conversation with witnesses on all sides, prize-winning author Samanth Subramanian examines how people reconcile themselves to violence, and how nations bury their pasts by reshaping memory and rewriting history. An important, balanced and piercing book by one of India’s best new writers. Samanth speaks to The Wheeler Centre’s Director Michael Williams.

<p><em>This Divided Island</em> is a monument to the 26-year conflict that ravaged Sri Lanka, leaving nearly 100,000 dead and a country exhausted, disturbed, and still hot from the embers of war. Through travels and conversation with witnesses on all sides, prize-winning author Samanth Subramanian examines how people reconcile themselves to violence, and how nations bury their pasts by reshaping memory and rewriting history. An important, balanced and piercing book by one of India&rsquo;s best new writers. Samanth speaks to The Wheeler Centre&rsquo;s Director Michael Williams.</p>

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