The Seasons of Trouble : Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka’s Civil War

For Three Decades, Sri Lanka's Civil War Tore Communities Apart. In 2009, The Sri Lankan Army Finally Defeated The Separatist Tamil Tigers Guerrillas In A Fierce Battle That Swept Up About 300,000 Civilians And Killed More Than 40,000. More Than A Million Had Been Displaced By The Conflict, And The Resilient Among Them Still Dared To Hope. But The Next Five Years Changed Everything. Rohini Mohan's Searing Account Of Three Lives Caught Up In The Devastation Looks Beyond The Heroism Of Wartime Survival To Reveal The Creeping Violence Of The Everyday. When City-bred Sarva Is Dragged Off The Streets By State Forces, His Middle-aged Mother, Indra, Searches For Him Through The Labyrinthine Sri Lankan Bureaucracy. Meanwhile, Mugil, A Former Child Soldier, Deserts The Tigers In The Thick Of War To Protect Her Family. Having Survived, They Struggle To Live As The Sri Lankan State Continues To Attack Minority Tamils And Muslims, Frittering Away The Era Of Peace. Sarva Flees The Country, Losing His Way - And Almost His Life - In A Bid For Asylum. Mugil Stays, Breaking Out Of The Refugee Camp To Rebuild Her Family And An Ordinary Life In The Village She Left As A Girl. But In Her Tumultuous World, Desires, Plans, And People Can Be Snatched Away In A Moment. The Seasons Of Trouble Is A Startling, Brutal, Yet Beautifully Written Debut From A Prize-winning Journalist. It Is A Classic Piece Of Reportage, Five Years In The Making, And A Trenchant, Compassionate Examination Of The Corrosive Effect Of Conflict On A People. The Seasons Of Trouble -- Part I. Unseen, June 2008-april 2009 -- Part Ii. Claustrophobia, April 2009-june 2010 -- Part Iii. Refuge, August 2010-april 2013 -- A Brief History Of The Sri Lankan Civil War. Rohini Mohan. Is it possible to find an ordinary life among the debris of war' Rohini Mohan's searing account of three lives caught up in the devastation shows how the war continues long after peace has been declared. While Sarva, a city-bred young man, is dragged off the streets by the police and accused of being a spy, his mother Raji attempts to search for him through the Kafkaesque Sri Lankan bureaucracy. Meanwhile, Swarna, once a child soldier, tries to rebuild her life as a mother to toddlers. Their turbulent journeys reveal the realities of day-to-day living in a region wracked by violence and mistrust. From the Hardcover edition Follows the lives of Sarvam, his middle-aged mother, Indra, and a girl named Mugil revealing the struggles they face after the Sri Lanka Civil War An unforgettable account of the scars of a long war, and the prolonged mayhem of the postwar peace